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To: Wally Mastroly who wrote (7379)	8/2/1999 3:57:00 PM
From: KurtSS	Respond to of 15132

FYI, I recently pulled S&P 500 data from Yahoo Finance for 1985 through YTD 1999 and found that for this time frame the May through October and November through April period were IDENTICAL in return. The monthly average return was +1.2% for both 6 month periods. With this data I did confirm that September was the worst month, yielding -0.6% vs. the 1.2% average. Here's the monthly results that I got. Average Date % Chng Dec 1.7 Nov 0.0 Oct -0.4 Sep -0.6 Aug 1.1 Jul 2.2 Jun 2.6 May 2.3 Apr 0.7 Mar 0.9 Feb 3.0 Jan 0.9 I will look into a longer timeframe, closer to that used by Yale Hirsch. KurtSS