Saturday, January 28, 2012

On 6/07/2011 Tuesday the DJIA closed at 12,070.81, within 70 points of the prediction

On 6/07/2011 Tuesday the DJIA closed at 12,070.81, within 70 points of the prediction of a correction to 11,900 to 12,000.

On 6/10/2011 Friday the DJIA closed at 11,951.91, exactly within the predicted 11,900 to 12,000 range predicted for the correction.
The DJIA, the NASDAQ and the S&P 500 are up, but ... there are major drags on the economy: unemployment at 8.8%, residential real estate prices, personal bankruptcies, petroleum prices, fighting three wars, the federal budget deficit, still recovering from traumatic credit markets crisis, unfavorable trade deficit (high imports and low exports), ... all these things prevent the stock market from going much higher.
More of the Prediction on 4/28/2011: “All sectors of the economy being inter-related, one sector can’t advance too far with others lagging. There needs to be health in major sectors. The stock market reflects investors' estimates of future prices and cash flows (dividends and capital gains).
It looks like there are going to be at least two major corrections in the equities markets in 2011. They could come at any time, but it is likely that we will have one very soon. Our prediction was that the DJIA would fluctuate between 12 and 13,000 during 2011 and close at 12,700.
So what, if any, trading action would be advised? Sell a percent of one of your equities tomorrow, April 29 (unless the market is already taking a big drop already, I guess: if the market is steady on opening). Hold the cash for about thirty to sixty days, looking for the market correction to reinvest it in another equity. (You can’t buy back the same equity for thirty days or have a wash sale.)”
What we are trying to do is macro-economic analysis applied to investing, I guess.

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