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The stock market's best 6 months start Monday, with a 76-year streak on the line

The stock market's favorite season starts Monday. For decades, November through April has beaten the rest of the year by a mile. That's the Halloween indicator , also called the “best six months” or "sell in May." Buy stocks at the end of October, hold them through April, then step aside for the summer. Yale Hirsch found the pattern in 1986. "You can divide the year into two sections and have practically all the gains in one six-month section and very little in the other," his son Jeffrey Hirsch