Friday, September 4, 2009

Monthly S&P charts - interim term bullish

ST term expectations noted in last two blog entries here and here, have been fullfilled with today's higher close. In those last two blog entries, i also pointed out a couple of interim term studies. Today i focus on another.

The S&P 500 just closed up for it's sixth consecutive month. Historically, this appears to underscore the resolve of the bulls here and argues for a bullish bias for the next few months. The table below show the performance of the S&P 3 months later after closing up for 6 consecutive months

TickerDate/TimeClose%Chg 3 Months Later
SPX2/26/195426.1511.63
SPX8/29/195847.759.91
SPX4/28/196165.312.22
SPX5/28/196480.371.82
SPX4/30/1971103.95-8.05
SPX5/31/1972109.531.42
SPX6/30/197595.19-11.89
SPX9/30/1980125.468.21
SPX1/31/1983145.3013.17
SPX3/31/1986238.905.00
SPX4/30/1991375.343.32
SPX2/26/1993443.381.54
SPX5/31/1995533.405.34
SPX4/30/1996654.17-2.17
SPX4/30/19981,111.750.80
SPX8/29/20031,008.014.98
SPX11/30/20061,400.630.44
SPX8/31/20091,020.62-1.70

In 76.5% of the cases, the S&P was trading higher 3 months later, vs 64% odds of the S&P closing higher 3 months later after any given month.

In short, a market that continues to make higher highs in what seems like already over-extended moves is a strong market and we should expect even higher prices to follow.

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