Flawless Stock Market Forecasting

May 28, 2013

One way to improve your stock market forecasts is to revise them! Bespoke has a nice piece where they show graphically how Wall Street strategists just change their forecast when the market moves past them. Whether the market goes up or down here is immaterial—the forecast will be changed to accommodate the market. Investors might give credence to some of these forecasts if they didn’t know they were a moving target. Who knew stock market forecasting was so easy?

Source: Bespoke (click on image to enlarge)

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Relative Strength Spread

May 28, 2013

The chart below is the spread between the relative strength leaders and relative strength laggards (universe of mid and large cap stocks). When the chart is rising, relative strength leaders are performing better than relative strength laggards. As of 5/27/13:

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