In September I posted a similar chart as the one below; however, data in the earlier post represented returns and duration for the S&P 500 Index. The article was republished on Seeking Alpha and most of the comments to the SA article took exception to how the chart was constructed. One commented noted "More upside? Unlikely..." Absent the market's October swoon, the U.S. equity markets continue to close at record highs. The below chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average is from Chart of the Day noting,
"The Dow just made another all-time record high. To provide some further perspective to the current Dow rally, all major market rallies of the last 114 years are plotted on today's chart. Each dot represents a major stock market rally as measured by the Dow with the majority of rallies referred to by a label which states the year in which the rally began. For today's chart, a rally is being defined as an advance that follows a 30% decline (i.e. a major bear market). As today's chart illustrates, the Dow has begun a major rally 13 times over the past 114 years which equates to an average of one rally every 8.8 years. It is also interesting to note that the duration and magnitude of each rally correlated fairly well with the linear regression line (gray upward sloping line). As it stands right now, the current Dow rally that began in March 2009 (blue dot labeled you are here) would be classified as well below average in both duration and magnitude."
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| From The Blog of HORAN Capital Advisors |
Source: Chart of the Day
Looking at the chart on its own would suggest this rally could have more room to run to the upside.
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