Reading your IRS cycle code is straightforward once you understand the format. The first four digits refer to the tax year.

The chart divides time into prosperity, good times, and hard times, suggesting the current bull market aligns with a broader prosperity cycle ... or 20 years, with good times for selling stocks ...

This annual seasonality pattern is this year reinforced by the presidential election and the Gann Decade cycle shown in the charts below. In the chart above, the post-election year shows weakness ...