[00:04] he said, "Stanley, the way you time the political cycle is you buy the market and then you sell it on the general election because they always rig things to be good in the election year." >> Let's try it. First, I'm going to ask
[00:17] Chat GPT what the average returns are for each year of the presidential cycle. The statistics surprisingly backed up what Stanley was saying. Years one and two of the president being elected generally had lower returns while the
[00:29] end of their term generally had higher returns. Then I went to the chart and this is where things started to become very very eye opening. I marked every single year from 1980 till now and marked 2 years before the president
[00:43] actually got elected. Then I marked every single year the president actually got elected. If you simply followed the strategy of investing 2 years before the president got elected, then selling when the president actually got elected, you
[00:56] would have made positive returns every single time. Let me repeat that. Positive returns every single time. Out of the 40 years, the only time we had negative returns was the presidential election of 2004 where you basically
[01:11] broke even. That's insane. What's even crazier is if you decided to follow this advice, 2026 is the year you would be buying and 2028 is the year you would buying and 2028 is the year you would sell. What do you guys think?