May 15, 2012
Today’s closing pattern of three declines for the DJIA and the S&P500, and two straight losses for the NASDAQ is the 8th repeat since the beginning of 2000. The diagram shows these days -with red for further losses on the following day, and green for increases. While they concentrate around the 2003 lower turning point, they do not display occurrences near a market top.
Yet that is the signal that would alert us to a forthcoming upper turning point. Therefore, these closes fail to provide an insight into the current front burner fear: is this expansion, of rising prices since early 2009, coming to an end?
DJIA -.50 percent
NASDAQ -.30 percent
S&P500 -.57 percent