BEAR MARKET RALLIES

This sucker is looking a little long in the tooth.

Today’s chart illustrates rallies that followed massive bear markets. For today’s chart, a ‘massive’ bear market is defined as a decline of greater than 50%. Since the Dow’s inception in 1896, there have been only three bear markets whereby the Dow declined more than 50% (early 1930s, late 1930s until early 1940s, and during the recent financial crisis). Today’s chart also adds the rally that followed the dot-com bust during which the Nasdaq declined 78%. The current Dow rally has followed the post dot-com bust rally of the Nasdaq that began back in 2002 fairly closely and held to a general post-massive bear market rally pattern — rally during the first 300 trading days, trade in a relatively flat choppy manner up until around 600 trading days and then re-embark on the second leg of the rally. It is worth noting that for the post-massive bear market rallies that began in 1942 and 2002, a major correction began after 1,200 to 1,300 trading days had passed. The post-financial crisis rally is currently over 1,300 trading days old.

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A. R. Wasem
A. R. Wasem

That which cannot continue will not continue. BC-LR to all

Persnickety
Persnickety

It won’t continue forever, but there’s a lot of money to be made for those who can time it. Good luck doing that without deep insider information, of course.

We pulled a lot of money out of the market in 08/09. In hindsight, bad timing. We pulled most of the rest out earlier this year. I HOPE that will have proven to be good timing.

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