Trump victory a second wake-up call for complacent investors. Read here to see how stocks have performed on Election Day and the day after. Between then and his swearing in on March 4, inauguration was moved to Jan. Disaster would come a little under eight months later with the Crash of , which stands as a signpost for the start of the Great Depression. Between then and inauguration on Jan. Both stats suggest performance has more to do with timing than faith in prospective policies.

Obama was elected in the depths of the financial crisis. Stocks bottomed in March, setting the stage for the current seven-year-plus bull market. On average, the move has been positive but no great shakes, with stocks rising 0.

When a Republican is elected, the average change has been a gain of 2. When the party in power changes, the average move has been a decline of 2. William Watts is MarketWatch's deputy markets editor, based in New York.

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The Obama bull market: A % jump in the Dow - Jan. 10,

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