Head and shoulders horror

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I know we’ve had a bad day on the sharemarket and I’m no doubt doing a bit of data mining as a result. But I’ve noticed a rather nasty sequence of head and shoulders patterns forming on the S&P500.

First, the 1 year chart:

That’s a beauty isn’t it? We reported it last week and so far the break of the neckline has delivered spectacularly.

Next the 5 year:

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This one is obviously more a potential H&S formation, but it’s a nice set up nonetheless.

Finally, we come to the horror, the 25 year:

Now that’s enough to make Mr Kurtz roll over in anguish.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.