Last year before an election

I have been proven too optimistic time and time again when it comes to the economy. A broken clock is right twice a day though so if I just keephttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif trying I should eventually be right. Here is a historical trend which might help things out soon:

The stock market returns less than 5% from October of the first year of a President’s term through September of the second year, but more than 25% over the following 12 months.