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Give me the courage Lord, to sail my boat out from the shore;

For I'd rather know the Ocean's gale, and hear the Tempests' roar,

than anchor safely in some bay, because Fear conquered me;

Let craft less daring inland stay, be mine the pathless Sea.

  

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                                                                                                             "Whatever thy hand finds to do, do it with all thy might." ~ Eccl 9:10

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As you can see, we have already broken the long-term downtrend in the markets and have entered a long-term uptrend. The buy signal came in at 1550 on the NASDAQ.

 

 

Target forecast 1480 below on 15 Oct, was hit 5 Nov.

 

 

DJIA

As you can see below, sometimes after a "mega bull run" such as we've had between 1982 and 1998, there are long periods when the markets have moved sideways to down. Ralph Acampora, published a book back in 2000 entitled The Fourth Mega-Market, Now Through 2011.  He notes that the three previous 'Mega Markets" were:

1) 1877-1891
2) 1921-1929
3) 1949-1966
 

Interesting to see what happened after each Mega Market.

1966 was followed with 15 years of basically moving sideways. Sure would hate to have my IRA "indexed." Talk about stress.

Then of course you have this period 1929-1954, when new highs weren't made. What happened to those who planned to retire in 1925, or 1927, who thought they could hold "long enough" and things would be ok? Yeah, 25 years later.......that's a bummer retirement.

 

Immediately after a crisis when the stock market falls tends to be a good buying opportunity a few months out....