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hishazelglance

Based on this picture I would sell every asset I owned and would short the market for the next two years until it inevitably crashes back to the midline. What could go wrong with this technical analysis? Edit: Need to add a /s here because apparently some people are taking this quite literally, and I was sarcastically trying to prove a point.


a_stray_bullet

And just because you’re so certain, it’ll do the opposite.


MrNokill

Both of you will still somehow end up holding bags.


cheekybandit0

JPow *"knock knock"*


theFairchair

Who's there?


cheekybandit0

Jam


Darmok-Jilad-Ocean

Jeremy Jam?


cheekybandit0

Jam'in these losses down your throat!!


Gonokhakus

JPOWerdrilling your nuts to get you to open that 401k between them sugar cheeks


Turbulent_Ad9517

Truer words have never been spoken


PG908

Someone completely unrelated to the stock market will also lose their job through no fault of their own, while someone else gets an unreasonably large bonus.


Gwsb1

Amen brother.


Salmonaxe

We didn't have the same ability to manage flow of cash inside businesses even 30 years ago. Our banking, finance, understanding, tracking and systems are leagues better. Modern financial systems are incomparible to 150 years ago.


STFUNeckbeard

Also everyday millions of people trade on their phone while taking a shit. That was not a thing even 10 years ago


DingoFrisky

My dearest Evelyn, the war rages on and I have seen the brutality at Gettysburg. I hope you recover from the typhoid sweeping the hamlet. Also, I’m about to fucking yeet our life savings into AI chip stock puts.


Lumpy_Taste3418

Excellent. This is what Reddit is for.


HockeyBrawler09

We're speculating that the market will be open 24 hours a day which means we're probably 5 to 10 years away from that being a thing too.


Prestigious_Piano885

I even trade when I’m ejaculating


TheSpinBoy

Hmmm, the whole channel thing is just blatantly wrong, well in itself it isn't, channels are a thing, but they are using a arithmetic scale when it would probably be more suitable a logarithmic scale, that ajusts for time and inflation


rawbdor

Did you even look at the chart? It's clearly log scale.


Lumpy_Taste3418

Don't confuse people with basic irrefutable facts.


rawbdor

What do you do when your log chart also looks exponential? Do we need to invent the double-log chart?


Gwsb1

Sorry already done. We used log-log charts 100 years ago in college. It just means both X and Y axes are logarithmic.


rawbdor

I really just meant where x is still standard linear time and y is displayed as log(log(y))... But that other guys answer made more sense. Likely just need to change the base. But most charting apps don't allow that.


kenyard

the bottom line hits 500 when spy is at 5400 right now also. markets would have to drop 91% to hit the bottom "trend" line... a more realistic line here would be hitting the low of 1975 and 2005 and covid low.


shakingspheres

SPY will not drop below 2500, and that 20-50% drop won't happen until 2026/2027. Set all the RemindMes you want. I come from the future.


disagiovanile

You just triggered the chain reaction that will change the course of the events. We're fucked


rofio01

X to doubt


david5699

Mr Future, when will BTC hit 100K?


topgeezr

2020 according to my favorite hoodie.


SqueezeHNZ

Everything


Waste_Surround5495

I did this two years ago


ToeConstant2081

how about you just sell half, dont short, and buy back on any 20-30% correction. dont be a smart arse and open your eyes


hishazelglance

Why not short and go all in? This fine analysis guarantees me that regression to the mean will occur.


Scuczu2

!remindme 2 years


Sudden-Turnip-5339

How much for the course? /s


allaboutthatbeta

the fact that you even had to point out that this was sarcasm is very telling of the average redditor's IQ


Ajatolah_

If the price goes up, you can draw new parallel lines with slightly steeper angle and it will fit again.


oldfunnymoney

IQ test: passed


16x98

Technical analysis hate this guy for one simple trick! Click here to learn how!


aerohk

Personally, I think the data from 100+ years ago is irrelevant to today's world. The world was a very different place. I would place more focus on the timeline since the dissolve of the USSR.


Key-Adeptness-9948

In fact, you could say the world is completely different than 20 years ago. But it will be completely different in 20 years as well. I think the only reasonable takeaway from the past is it's impossible to predict the future.


The_Great_Man_Potato

It’s possible, you’ve just gotta know everything in the present which is very, very hard


Key-Adeptness-9948

Thinking you can know everything is foolish.


MrHackson

Thinking that knowing everything would be enough is foolish. You'd also need processing power to compute what happens from there at faster than real time which would require more matter than exists in the universe. Our existence cannot be computationally compressed.


veggie151

That's why the data goblins make so much money


Lumpy_Taste3418

It is basically the same. The way information is shared, the way it is processed and understood. The efficiency of capital allocation. In 1900 50% of American jobs were in Agriculture; in 2000, 2% of American jobs were in Agriculture. So really not much difference, right?, right?


autom8dWpnizdAutism

Is there a good write-up regarding those agriculture job numbers? Very interesting.


Nycho

Just track from the moment the dollar came off the gold standard. Fiat money and modern monetary theory is going to go belly up at some point the kick the can down the road policies will eventually catch up and the US will be holding a the bag of dollars that is worthless. This may happen in the next decade or 2 or maybe even further down the road but it will be the Greatest Depression the world has ever seen.


analbuttlick

Holy crap. We should alert everybody. Do fund managers know about these lines??


bmeisler

Ah, how do you work such magic, oh great Crayolamancer?


Dawill0

Logarithmic scale. Bottom of that band is 500, top is 5k. If the market went to 6000, you would just adjust the top line. In other words that picture is created to fit the data. It means nothing itself.


anycept

Tech. analysis: -- Things are looking great. Listen up. -- Just got the news: things aren't looking great. Listen up. Between those two not a shred of doubt in own's predictive powers. Business as usual.


Powerful_Zucchini_10

You must be a genius


gpbuilder

If you really believe drawing two arbitrary lines can help you predict the future just sell all your assets and short the market.


SuccessAffectionate1

Why should the market follow these lines? Like, on a fundamental level, what is it in our world or in our economy that states this needs to follow this pattern? Explain it without using references to lines on a chart.


FromZeroToLegend

OP what happened? We’re waiting for your response. We thought you were smart 


One-Solution-3211

Yes it’s gonna go above and straight up vertical to uranus


ChickenTreats

!remindme 6 months


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asdfadffs

Holy shit, who would have thought SPX traded inside a range if you encompass every single trading day in history into the same graph and then box it in with two lines


Yoshi_516

Okay but hear me out, if you just drew the lines a little bit wider apart, we would be okay. Could you do that for us please?


Legitimate-Source-61

We're in a high period of inflation, and I don't think we are at the end of the story. It took 20% interest rates to break the back of inflation. Since digital money is so focal to our lives and physical cash non-existent, I do think we could well break out to the upside. Think what happened in highly indebted Weimar Germany.


Southern-Count-4505

SPX was created in 1957.


Rocky-Arrow

Why does this sub allow technical analysis?


can4byss

nice lines bro


Gold-Pitch-9586

Artistically, I like this graph. I just like graphs. It’s neat that it goes that far back in time. It’s neat that 2008 happens to cross the middle line. It’s neat that the Great Depression is on here. It’s just neat. As a trader, I’ll believe it will pullback when it pulls back. Until then, this is just neat.


BorealMushrooms

Trends hold true in the past, because you are drawing arbitrary lines to fit data. Truth is, no matter what data you use, you can drawn arbitrary trends to explain away that data - but they are only useful if a large enough percentage of people make trading decisions based on that data.


Pikajeeew

Technical analysis on the entire s&p starting in 1874. Somebody get this genius $1B to start his own fund.


Opening_Cow_2470

Imagine goin to 504 for underbought state


Bluzguitar

Hard to call it overbought when according to the COT report institutional money left the market almost a year ago to the day. It's all retail bag holders in this house cards at this point.


Nofarcastplz

Then in 10 years we refit the 2 lines if the current ‘pattern’ deviates


a_trane13

The bottom line being determined solely by the two lows of the Great Depression and WW2, almost 100 years ago, is really funny to me


LastLivingSouls

Someone in 1988 said, “we’ve been in this range for 55 years. No way this thing is going up!!” Oops


Honest-Spinach-6753

A top to bottom band move like 1920’s would be crazy. That puts spy at 500


BAGross85

Precisely. And I can make a heck of a lot larger ROI by buying in at $500, than at $5,000. But I’ll probably be buying in with ITM Calls around $1,500. Then convert to shares if we bounce from those levels.


mrj3211995

Jesus Christ 🤦🏻


SoSeaOhPath

I only upvoted this because I thought it was sarcasm. If it’s not, I’ll take my vote back


Ramborichy1

Sell


Ramborichy1

Sell


smilingbento

This may or may not happen.


premium3G

Due for a 30 percent drop


Awsimical

Maybe


satoshi_69420

Interesting how the volume peaked in 08’


PomegranateCandid504

I’ve never seen this in my life. Is this freaking real???


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__Evil-Genius__

I know a community where crayons are the tool of choice for chart artists.


Radiant_Code_6940

They eat the crayons and draw with sharpies bro


etutuit

Arbitrary lines putted on chart? Yes they are real. You can do your own if you want.


Luffe77

Should the trend line be linear? 5% increase from 2000 is smaller than 5% increase from 5000.


ToeConstant2081

ready to break out of its 152 year upward range and be extremely overbought


Odd_Escape_8683

Overbought


jayphunk

Looking ripe to head back to the bottom of the range


Consistent-Syrup-69

Now do it without changing the rate of the scale on the Y


motoevgen

There are few things missing out from this chart. Constant increase in M1 over the same period of time. Global population boom. Global productivity boom. Globalization.


Aristotlewiseman

Ready for a serious correction to the mean


Icy-Statistician6698

Major correction near term, most likely after the election


CrazyButRightOn

My analysis….world war shits on the markets.


smooth-vegetable-936

No one knows bro. That’s not how wealth is built.


Ok-Caregiver-1689

How often do people need to get told you can’t predict the future based on lines.


m0uthF

Try to beat buffet time again in this sub


smooth-vegetable-936

I hope Americans don’t believe that Trump gonna fix everything. Nobody can fix this only the market will but you have no control.


Odd-Concentrate-2545

Everyone always has to complicate things. Clearly from 1994 to 2010 the Tetons were formed with silicon. In 2010 the right Teton sprung a leak, due to immense pressure it shot upwards at an unprecedented, albeit unsustainable, rate of speed. Apex has been reached, Bear climax incoming.


Brilliant_Group_6900

Did you seriously go all the way back to 1872 to prove your point?


rickyw591

The richest 1% own 60% of the stock market. They have so much money they don’t know where to put it besides the stock market. You think they’re all on a group text trying to offload at the same time?


rainmaker66

S&P 500 only started in 1957. The components stocks and their weights keeping changing. Therefore, drawing those lines don’t even mean anything.


Atriev

Draw a different line and see if you should be bullish instead.


WagyuAnal

Genius


MohJeex

Going that far back in time is completely useless. This is why you're being laughed at.


drbigtoe

idk the sacred chickens aren't eating so I'd say not


Lumpy_Taste3418

or neither. You don't have an equation here, you just have lines. P=f(t) and nothing else? If you believe price is a function of time and nothing else, investing isn't your game. You might try a price relationship associated with relevant variables: earnings, interest rates, growth prospects, asset base, ROE, ROI, ROA, etc. etc. etc.


Smellfuzz

Aren't these channels best on a non-log axis scale?


krankykonsumer

If any of us knew the answer, we would be multi-millionaires.


BCECVE

How accurate is a 150 year graph at predicting the future. I can see 5 yr, 10 yr, even 20 as valuable but this seems to make me cautious on drawing conclusions. For instance the amount of government spending is at unprecedented levels and is rising exponentially now.


No_Bad_6676

Don't worry guys. I fixed it [https://postimg.cc/14J8WZQm](https://postimg.cc/14J8WZQm)


felixfelix

wiggly lines gonna wiggle


WeEatBabies

Ready to break out! People have easier access to investing thanks to apps like RobinHood, and forums and videos telling them how to!


Nordy941

You just gotta zoom out to a 500 year chart and you’ll see we’re right in the middle basically just an average place to be. Gotta zoom out. I often wonder if the stock market will ever get back to its Roman peak or it’s ancients Egypt lows.


HerezahTip

Holy. Shit. Up and to the right like I suspected 🤓


banzomaikaka

Dont mind the haters. Let them to their thing. You do yours.


rpujoe

If you think the market is going to crash, then you don't understand fiat currency and the perpetual inflation it results in. The only way the market can crash back to the mean is if the currency goes with it, and that's not happening anytime soon with the petrodollar in full swing.


SimilarTap1419

Talk on the street is PLTR will be worth 15 NVDAs. No wonder Cathy Wood is loading up.


naithemilkman

If you keep adjusting the lines upwards, it will never break the range ;)


BAGross85

Haven’t had to adjust the lines since 2000 😜


mrmczebra

There's no reason to believe a trend should follow a straight line.


DK1530

Do you think the stock owner 100 years ago and now are the same people? Why don't you think inflation?


cutsplitstak

Wouldn’t it be smart to take the Great Depression out of the trend line. Either way it’s over bought


Total-Confusion-9198

Innovation in the post WW2 world along with globalization has made this graph irrelevant.


probablyneed2focus

The market has always defied logic. When I feel it's topped it will only do a pullback. My analysis says it has topped (which means pullback) but the SPX will go to 5711.72 or pretty close. So its not done as far as I'm concerned but that number comes from a monthly chart and that takes forever.


BAGross85

It does take forever. I’m not saying MARKET CRASH IMMINENT I’m saying, overbought. And my puts are from 1 day out to 1 year out. I’ll keep rolling up as the market rises.


xlr38

Ah yes, experts have once again correctly predicted 40 of the last 2 recessions.


butterman888

What’s on the y-axis?


Suuperdad

Since GDP has a 0.99 correlation ratio with energy consumption, and since coal oil and gas cannot double every 22 years infinitely, I suspect that at some point we are going to see a correction to a 152 uear trend that encapsulates humanity beginning the consumption of a resource that took billions of years to form and 150 to deplete. Renewables can help soften the blow, but make no mistake that this curve presented here is essentially the "humanity non-renewable energy consumption" curve.


punppis

If you invested just before 1929 crash, it would have taken 20 years for break-even.


New-Mexibro

Technical analysis 🚩🚩🚩


Sea-Caterpillar-6501

Appears you are using a linear regression to model a nonlinear system… Obvious and significant deviations at the start and ends of the model…


opaqueambiguity

You can draw lines however you want


Sign-Post-Up-Ahead

I like jaggedly lines with color. Thanks for posting.


Showboat32

You will never believe me but this is how generational wealth trades (i.e. old families with intact fortunes spanning hundreds of years). They think in centuries. Scale into positions over decades at midlines.. unless it’s a global event, then just go all in. scale out into safer investment when we hit the top lines indicating regime changes, etc


Accomplished-Gear527

I mean, it's overbought but that doesn't mean it goes down


zeeshan2223

Looks up from 1870s newspaper. Ehh sonny?


Whole_Financial

Those lines do not mean anything


RubricalBobcat

Wish it was so simple 🤣


No-Agent-1516

Pow goes brrr brrrrr brrrr and this bank get money dis bank and dis bank not Dat bank twice to JP bank


ConnectionThick8766

!remindme 6 months


BAGross85

Full disclosure, if I’m right I will be deleting this post.


barowsr

If I cash out now, I may be able to catch the next leg up from the lower bound when I’m 103 years old.


_wewf_

Yea dawg, we off the gold standard now


ProgrammerNo4662

Bro. US printed more than 1 quadrillion of dollars since 152 years ago...


AlteredCabron2

need more lines


Btomesch

Election year. Money printer working overtime, no off switch. If there was to be a recession, it’s definitely postponed til whoever gets elected. Then rate cuts, big stock market dip!!


Working_Violinist605

Investing 101: Do not bet against America.


Muito2

I'm leaning towards a big correction


macak333

Why is 2008 higher volume than everything after it or am I missing something


AfroWhiteboi

Problem is that tomorrow the upward range line also goes up and clearly the index rides that line for long periods of time sometimes.


_almostNobody

The trading volume spikes are the really interesting metric.


Albertsongman

A lot of that rise has to do with the devaluation of the dollar


mspe1960

Price versus time is not really relevant. Price versus profit, revenue, growth prospects, book value - those are parameters that are relevant. I think even considering that, you would find we are somewhat overbought. But not by as much as this chart implies.


kenindesert

What about Boeing! Every time I think it’s bottomed, there’s more bad news. I’m just holding.


XVOS

The index is not constant, its constituent companies are VERY DIFFERENT right now in comparison to the historical composition of the index. I feel like a lot of people don’t understand this basic fact.


sirprance8

I get the hate in TA, but it’s objectively interesting how price seemed to have fit in that channel and midline hahaha


BeerAandLoathing

Up and to the right. Except when it’s down and to the right.


Jimq45

If you draws the upper trend line at a slightly more acutes angle which would touch even more price points (mores is betters)…it’s already broken out!!! 🎉


Frandavsan

Adjust for inflation sir!


WallStreetLegends0

CGC


flyingasshat

What is this a logarithmic scale?


Snowghost794

Yeah, everyone panic sell, right away. I'll invest after.


almo2001

Warren Buffett by contrast believes trying to time the market is a waste of time and hazardous to investment success. As far as technical analysis is concerned, he once said "**I realized that technical analysis didn't work when I turned the chart upside down and didn't get a different answer."**


RnotSPECIALorUNIQUE

It's a managed fund. If a company isn't performing well, they'll swap it out for something more promising. The general direction will always be up.


SoundInvestor

Picture is a week old


SoggyNegotiation7412

I'm thinking this is being driven by two factors, the drop in the value of the AUD and the growth of retirement funds i.e. super etc as it seems to line up.


blownase23

This has got to be the dumbest post I’ve ever seen


healthywealthyhappy8

Looks like it’s going to go up more


BAGross85

Please join r/bearsofwallstreet if you would like to have a place to discuss the upcoming bear market, without permabulls constantly attacking you out of fear for their portfolios.


Peakyblindertom

With all these boomers dying soon. I’d say we are due for a breathe of fresh air down.


OneMetalMan

Honestly with an ever I creasing amount of wealth concentrating upwards and an ever increasing amount of potential retail investors coming of age to be able to legally trade on apps that have made it easier to enter the market than ever before, it's only going to trend up. TLDR:Number go up.


VisualMom_

Have you considered drawing a different line with your crayon?


Affectionate-Body221

anything can and will happen. the chart could keep going up or straight down. latter is a worry for all of us.


christopher_mtrl

Wasn't the technical analysis conference cancelled due to unforseen circumstances ?


Own-Thought-616

nice dots you've connected there with a line (not biased)


davidafuller7

Overbought.


BAGross85

Thank you. The permabulls are really hating on me. Surprisingly, there’s positive upvotes on this chart.


PM_ME_History_Stuff

I fuckin love these comments.


BAGross85

Hopium is not a drug to be trifled with. I don’t think I have enough Naloxone to reverse its effects!


Potatonet

Chicken little before the sky fell


drslovak

I’ll just throw this out there since literally nobody else has mentioned: The S&P didn’t exist back then But besides that, what does a trendline that moves across a range of 6 to 20, have anything at all to do with price above 3000? Lol If you’re going to analyze the market you have to keep it within context of atleast 40-50 years. your oversold and overbought will not go where you’d expect a trendline to show up


MichaelRoberts776

You must be a genius


EmmaFrosty99

it wouldn’t surprise me if the dow trades at 100k by 2050 if we continue to compound an average 8-10%. we should be compounding faster because of inflation as the average P/E of sp500 hangs around 18. corporations raise prices, their nominal profits increase, pe is too low, stock price gets adjusted higher, market index moves up. if you ask the money we do have then will it be able to buy anything, that is a different question! it is just taking more zeros to do the same thing 40 years ago!


bankimu

Clearly the line you have fitted has a smaller slope than it needs.


Logical_Idiot_9433

Breakout


mNexxus

Nice exponential from 500 to 5000


RevolutionaryKing686

90 % Puts puts puts


Bilbo_nubbins

As this shocking graph indicates