Thursday, August 31, 2017

6 Month Stock Forecast September, 2017 through February, 2018

(Note: The October market forecast will be a few days late.)

My models expect another month of weak results for the U.S. stock market, but then things should get back to normal.  For September, the models see a likely stumble of less than half a percent -- no big deal.  For the next half year the models predict a net gain of about 5% (slightly better than the average gain of 4.8% since 1984).  Surprisingly, the models see the probability of at least breaking even as 98%.

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The forecasting models have been very accurate so far this year. (Better than my long term testing would have expected.)  The graph below shows, month-by-month the actual gains of the Value Line Arithmetic Average (black) and the results for the same period that my models had predicted 6 months earlier (red).



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