{"id":11958,"date":"2012-05-29T11:52:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T15:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drduru.com\/onetwentytwo\/?p=11958"},"modified":"2012-05-29T12:42:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T16:42:34","slug":"another-historic-may-sp500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drduru.com\/onetwentytwo\/2012\/05\/29\/another-historic-may-sp500\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Historically Bad May for the S&#038;P 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another May and another horror show for the stock market. Excluding today&#8217;s oversold bounce currently underway, the S&#038;P 500 (SPY) is down 5.7% for the month. The index was down as much as 7.1% last week. The chart below shows that these numbers are extreme even for a month that causes so much fear and consternation (&#8220;sell in May&#8221;). If the S&#038;P 500 had finished at its lows for the month, the index would have recorded its third worst May since 1950. The only worse years were 1962 and 2010. As things stand now, this month is &#8220;only&#8221; the sixth worst May performance for the S&#038;P 500 since 1950 (included in the red bar).<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11959\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11959\" style=\"width: 515px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drduru.com\/onetwentytwo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/120529_SP500MayPerformance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/drduru.com\/onetwentytwo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/120529_SP500MayPerformance.jpg\" alt=\"The Performance of the S&amp;P 500 In May from 1950 to 2012\" title=\"The Performance of the S&amp;P 500 In May from 1950 to 2012\" width=\"525\" height=\"374\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drduru.com\/onetwentytwo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/120529_SP500MayPerformance.jpg 525w, https:\/\/drduru.com\/onetwentytwo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/120529_SP500MayPerformance-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Performance of the S&P 500 In May from 1950 to 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<strong>Source for prices: Yahoo!Finance<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Be careful out there!<\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure: long SDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another May and another horror show for the stock market. Excluding today&#8217;s oversold bounce currently underway, the S&#038;P 500 (SPY) is down 5.7% for the month. The index was down as much as 7.1% last week. The chart below shows that these numbers are extreme even for a month that causes so much fear and &#8230; <a title=\"Another Historically Bad May for the S&#038;P 500\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/drduru.com\/onetwentytwo\/2012\/05\/29\/another-historic-may-sp500\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[65,583,1597],"class_list":["post-11958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-analysis","tag-sp-500","tag-sell-in-may","tag-technical-analysis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Another Historically Bad May for the S&amp;P 500 - ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/drduru.com\/onetwentytwo\/2012\/05\/29\/another-historic-may-sp500\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Another Historically Bad May for the S&amp;P 500 - ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Another May and another horror show for the stock market. 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