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Saturday, January 11, 2014

Dow Symmetry

Interesting symmetry on the Dow monthly chart.
The 1994-2002 'Regular Cycle' of 96-bars was only 2-bars (months) shy of perfect symmentry when compared to the 2000-2007 'Inverted Cycle'.  The current (2007 to now) Inverted Cycle is 74-months and counting, in comparison to the 2002-2009 Regular Cycle of 78 bars we're getting pretty close to a symmetrical comparison.
As an aside, the fuchsia parallel in the chart above is the 'Cyclic Trend Line' (CTL), a designation which, when crossed, is supposed to mark the end of one cycle and the beginning of the next.  Here (bleow) is where previous CTL's would have been placed.  The breakouts from a down trend happening much cleaner and faster than the choppy breaks occuring in a down trend (replete with throwbacks).

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