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Overview of Broad Market Support
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Monitoring for May 2008
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Stock prices and by extension, market indices reflect support being provided by market participants. As information from financial data releases and other business news enters the marketplace, the actions being taken by market investors and the assertions being expressed by market influencers can change with changes impacting level of support being provided, Info-Impact.
From our Info-Impact market monitoring perspective, broad market support as of the first of May is in a more or less negative phase. Referencing S&P 500 data points, the following support stages scale will provide you insight into strength and weakness of broad market support from our perspective during May as information from financial data releases and other business news enters the marketplace.
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Above, Support Rather Positive 1,443 Between, Support Somewhat Positive 1,385 Between, Support Rather Mixed 1,323 Between, Support Somewhat Negative 1,256 Below, Support Rather Negative
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If the S&P 500 crosses above the 1,443 data point level in May, it would be an indication that broad market support from our perspective has transitioned from a more or less negative phase to a more or less positive phase.
Current broad market support phase, more or less negative, has been in place since January 18, 2008 with largest loss reached phase period-to-date being minus (-) 5%.*
A summary of completed broad market support phases is included in the overview supplement published below. While reviewing past results is an important aspect to gaining an understanding of the perspective a market monitoring process provides, it also important to keep in mind past performance is no guarantee of future results.
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Overview Supplement
Latest Update: February 1, 2008 (Supplement is updated the first of the month following a month within which a broad market support transition level was crossed.)
- Supplement Background: Info-Impact Market Monitoring Perspective -
At a point, information coming from the actions being taken by market investors and the assertions being expressed by market influencers will reach critical mass with respect to having either a positive or a negative impact on broad market support. When that point is reached, it is an indication that broad market support has transitioned from a more or less positive phase to a more or less negative phase or vice versa, as the case may be.
In contrast to price trends with multiple trends in place at the same time (e.g., long, intermediate, near term), there is only one broad market support phase in place at a time. Similar to price trends, individual broad market support phases do vary in their magnitude and duration. During a phase, there are five broad market support stages by which to follow strength and weakness of support - Rather Positive, Somewhat Positive, Rather Mixed, Somewhat Negative and Rather Negative.
After reviewing this supplement, click perspective link above on the right for a closer look at the Info-Impact perspective including the reasoning behind correlating our broad market support monitoring process to financial data sub-cycles.
- Last Transition Point -
As published in the January 2008 overview, when the S&P 500 crossed below the 1318 level on January 18, 2008, it was an indication that broad market support from our perspective had transitioned from a more or less positive phase to a more or less negative phase.
- Summary of Completed Broad Market Support Phases -
Since January of 1967, when as a bank executive and trust officer Info-Impact Monitoring, LLC’s founder started tracking support, there has been a total of 17 completed broad market support phases.
9 More or Less Positive Broad Market Support Phases
>Magnitude*
Median Market Gain: 46% (largest gain, 256% and smallest gain, 28%)
>Duration**
Median Phase Period Length: 33 months (longest, 91 months and shortest, 25 months)
8 More or Less Negative Broad Market Support Phases
>Magnitude*
Median Market Loss: -15% (largest loss, -40% and smallest loss, -4%)
>Duration**
Median Phase Period Length: 9 months (longest, 29months and shortest, 3 months)
* Broad market support phase magnitude is expressed as percentage of market gain or loss based on the largest S&P 500 data point gain or loss reached during a broad market support phase period rounded off to nearest full percentage point, respectively. ** Broad market support phase duration is expressed in months rounded off to nearest number of months in total.
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