In the month of January, stock market investors have suffered losses 6 times out of the last 10 years.Image Credit source: ChatGPT
Since 2017, there has been a tradition of presenting the budget on 1 February. This tradition will complete 10 years in the year 2026. But from the stock market point of view, the month of January before the budget has proved to be very inauspicious for investors. In these 10 years, there have been only two years when stock market investors have got good profits in the month of January. The two years were such that even though there was no loss, the profit was also not big enough to be happy with. But there were 6 such occasions when stock market investors had to drink tears of blood in the month of January before the budget. Lakhs of crores of rupees of investors were lost. The special thing is that for the last two consecutive years, investors have suffered a loss of more than Rs 15 lakh crore. Last year i.e. in January 2025, investors had suffered a loss of about Rs 18 lakh crore. Let us also tell you how the month of January before the budget has proved to be disastrous for investors.
Big fall in stock market in the month of January
From the year 2017, the budget has started being presented on 1st February. Which will be 10 years. The special thing is that since then till now the stock market has suffered losses most of the times in the month of January. If we talk about the current year, a decline of 3.46 percent has been seen in the Sensex in the month of January before the budget. Whereas in the year 2025, a decline of 0.81 percent was seen. Whereas in the month of January in the year 2024, a decline of 0.68 percent has been seen in the Sensex. A similar situation has been seen in the month of January in the last 10 years. Investors have benefited in some of the months of January. So in the few months of January, investors have suffered huge losses. However, the profit and loss of stock market investors is linked to the market cap of BSE.
In which years did investors benefit?
10 years have passed from the year 2017 to 2026. Before the coming of the budget, only 4 such Januarys have been seen when investors have benefited. Out of which, two Februarys were witnessed when investors made huge profits. In the year 2017, when the budget was to be presented for the first time on February 1, the stock market showed a good response in the month of January. In this month, stock market investors had gained a profit of Rs 6,32,983.25 crore. In January 2024, investors went into a frenzy. Even though the interim budget was presented on one date in the month of February, investors had made a profit of Rs 15,49,529.63 crore in the month of January. Investors made a nominal profit of Rs 1,47,110.86 crore in the year 2018 and Rs 97,152.69 crore in January 2020.
Investors benefit in January before the budget
These 6 years broke the backs of investors
If we talk about the remaining 6 years, the backs of investors are already broken before the budget comes in the month of January. In January 2025 and January 2026, investors have suffered huge losses. In the year 2026, stock market investors have suffered a loss of Rs 15,76,997.76 crore in the month of January. Whereas in the month of January last year, before the budget came, there was a loss of Rs 17,93,014.9 crore. For three consecutive years from 2021 to 2023, stock market investors lost money before the budget in the month of January. There has been a loss of Rs 1,90,874.57 crore, Rs 1,59,004.37 crore and Rs 12,15,087.95 crore respectively in 3 years. In the month of January 2019, investors have suffered a loss of Rs 3,49,135.6 crore.
In which years investors suffered losses in January?
Budget announcement and stock market will open on Sunday
The special thing is that the budget is going to be presented on Sunday, which will happen for the first time in history. The special thing is that the stock market will also be open on this occasion. In such a situation, it is expected that this time with the budget announcements, the stock market will bring happiness to the investors on the budget day. However, this time the budget will be under the shadow of Trump’s tariffs. This time many tax reforms may also be announced in the budget. On the other hand, the government can also put forward a blueprint to increase trade through the budget.