"First Month?Ûªs Performance Has Predicted the Market?Ûªs Direction Accurately Many Times Before. But Will It Do So Again This Year?</br></br>First Month?Ûªs Performance Has Predicted the Market?Ûªs Direction Accurately Many Times Before. But Will It Do So Again This Year? mhe overall trend of the market for the past three years has been set during January. So far in 1995, January again has been a good month.</br></br>NEW YORK?ÛÓIt?Ûªs nail biting time on Wall Street as the stock market?Ûªs performance this month provides the ""January barometer?Û? that is supposed to predict whether the year on Wall Street will be good or bad.</br></br>Yale Hirsch, publisher of Stock Trader?Ûªs Almanac, said that the month of January has proved to be an ?ÛÏincredible?Û? forecaster of things to come for the rest of the year.</br></br>?ÛÏNothing beats the January Barometer,?Û? he said. ?ÛÏSince 1950, no other indicator has predicted the annual course of the market with such accuracy.?Û?"