Timing the market

Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P500 and other stock market indexes: past daily forecasts.

   

past forecasts

      The pages linked below show graphics where, in red, are plotted the daily closes of the index, in black, the forecasts. The thicker black line is the prediction for 20 trading days into the future and the pink shadow shows how far extends the uncertainty zone. Of that uncertainty zone, the black line is the most probable future behavior of the market. The wider the shadowed zone, the lesser the stability of the forecast.

The purpose sought by this predictions is forecasting the trends of the market, showing as precise as possible the position of the turning points. The predictor is built to just try to find the position of local maxima and minima and not the exact value of the index.

Thus actual local maxima and minima should be found around the day predicted (may be one or two days before or after). Also, you have to be warned that economic scenarios may change suddenly rendering the prediction useless. The predictor has good performance in "quiet times", but when the market exaggerates a trend, as in a crash, the mechanims at work change and the predictor fails to predict. This facts can be observed in the historical forecasts below.

     
      Enter the date and index and press GO to see the evolution against the forecast. Archive available from 1997
(MIBTEL available from Dec 1997.)
     

       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
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