The January Barometer is among the panoply of superstitions surrounding stock market history made popular by the Stock Trader's Almanac founder, Yale Hirsch.
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Jeffrey Hirsch, editor of Stock Trader's Almanac Investor, is an unflappable propagator of market truisms, and his father, Yale Hirsch, discovered the "best six months" strategy in 1986.