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Author: mungofitch ✹🐝🐝🐝🐝 SILVER
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Subject: Re: OT Cash balances keep soaring
Date: 11/21/2024 11:06 AM
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Re timing systems---

Deciding when to sell is really, really hard. Some folks can do it, but I'm not an expert, despite trying.

On the other hand, I don't find it quite so hard to find good times to buy. So I find having a bit of cash on hand for pouncing works pretty well.

Pull up a 20 year chart of the S&P.

These are dates that my major market bottom detector triggered

2009-03-04 http://www.datahelper.com/mi/search.phtml?nofool=y...
2011-08-08 (can't find a post)
2011-10-04 http://www.datahelper.com/mi/search.phtml?nofool=y...
2015-09-30 http://www.datahelper.com/mi/search.phtml?nofool=y...
2016-01-22 http://www.datahelper.com/mi/search.phtml?nofool=y...
2018-10-24 (can't find a post)
2018-12-21 http://www.datahelper.com/mi/search.phtml?nofool=y...
2020-03-16 http://www.datahelper.com/mi/search.phtml?nofool=y...
2022-09-29 (can't find a post)

The signals tend to come in clusters, several days the same week, so it's hard to answer how many signals it has given, but I think that's all of them since '09. I might have missed one or two.

Jim
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