Hold off on those 2008 SPX analogies for now

When looking at the % of S&P100 stocks above their 200 day average on a monthly basis, you could see 2008 coming. Sustained price momentum decay led that % to under 45% before the S&P500 started taking on serious losses.

That channel is to the left in green on this chart. Shift your eyes right and notice the green channel we are in now. I drew that channel about a month ago and came across this chart today while deleting old charts.

I will be keeping this one - notice we are crawling sieways out of that channel above the 45% level? We may dip to 45% in the next few months for a correction (I half expect such to happen) but the tight, momentum building channel off of the high that started in late 2006? Not happening this time.

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