January, from Duncan Coker
Here's one for the guaranteed to happen file:
Last January we had three down days in S&P futures leading up to the end of the year and followed by another five down days more or less (one slight up of 0.3 in there). This year we had five up days leading into the year end followed by two more up days so far. Of the eight most recent examples of up two day moves at year start, the results are mixed for rest of month.