 By the way, it's okay if you didn't. I'm going to get to it in a moment. It doesn't matter. But in terms of stock market performance, the S&P 500 has experienced a gain of 1.7% in July and finished the month higher more than 60% of the time. Meanwhile, if you look at the Dow, it's delivered an average monthly advance of 1.4% in July, also making it the best month of the year for the blue chip index dating all the way back to pre-1900.