The Hindenburg Omen

[Ad Orientem]

Scary charts for those who believe in such things...
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout ... 04190.html

[craigr]

https://web.archive.org/web/20160324133 ... in-flames/

Since the omen was first spotted in 2010 the stock market did this to 2011:

[Ad Orientem]

LOL  I have always tended to view charts as a means of predicting the future with a great deal of skepticism. It seems like a modern form of divination or casting chicken bones. But there are people who live and die by them. And if you get enough people to subscribe to a popular prophesy, it can become self fulfilling.

[craigr]

IMO. The only way to really do these kinds of things if one is interested is with strict rebalancing bands and stop limits. But that plays into a lot of human emotions and drives up costs. And long-term I doubt it would work better than just buying and holding…

BUT, this is the Variable Portfolio section so I try not to come in here too often and rain on anyone's parade with my cold hard dose of reality party pooping!