Michael Harris: Dow 4000 Predictions are Not Scientific

The financial interwebs are rife with blog posts showing the supposed long-term head-and-shoulders top forming in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.  Many of the technicians and chartists posting these are extrapolating a great deal to come up with a low four digits target for the index, representing a pepperspraying of two-thirds from today’s levels.  They are pointing to some version of the above quarterly chart (in logarithmic scale) to make their case.

Michael Harris takes a scientific and data-driven approach to debunk the fact that technical analysis can predict any such thing.  His take that is subjective interpretations of current news headlines are influencing a biased look at these long-term charts to come up with such a prediction.

Harris’s argument makes the following three points:

Fact 1: Patterns on long-term charts may indicate reversal or continuation

Fact 2: Log charts distort chart patterns

Fact 3: It makes little or no sense to look at very long-term index charts

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Dow 4,000? What Technical Analysis Says or Doesn’t Say About Such Possibility (Price Action Lab Blog)

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