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          Momentum's Tipping Point
     When does a correction become
     a bear market?     

                By William Schmidt, Ph.D. (Columbia Univ.)
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              After a Bull Market, the AROC Dropping Below -1.5 Is Bearish.

             
-1.5 (-150%) appears to be a critical level.    The 1978, 1980 and March 2001
              declines saw the AROC fall only to -1.47 and then the DJI recovered. 


              On 8/8/2011, the AROC fell below -1.5.  This is not good. In 11 of 13 cases,
              the DJI fell much more, sometimes in only a few days and sometimes after two months.

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              10/3/1929   AROC fell below -1.5, followed by a five day rally and then 1929 crash.
              6/16/1930    AROC fell belo -1.5. with DJI at 230,11.  Fell to 210 a week later.
              9/7/1937     AROC fell below -1.5 with DJI at 164.40 and then fell to 112 ten weeks later.
              5/14/1940   AROC fell below -1.5 with DJI at 128.30 and then fell to 115 six days later.
              9/9/1946     AROC fell below -1.5 with DJI at 172 and then fell to 164 a month later. 

              7/12/1950  AROC fell below -1.5 and turned up strongly 2 days later.
             
5/28/1962    AROC fell below -1.5 with DJI at 576.90 and then fell to 538 a month later. 
              10/16/1987   AROC fell below -1.5 with DJI at 2245.70 and then fell to 1738 a trading day later.  
              8/22/1990   AROC fell below -1.5 with DJI at 2560.15 and then fell to 2360  two months later. 
              8/31/1998  AROC fell below -1.5 and then built a base for a month without going lower before rallying.

           
  9/17/2001   AROC fell below -1.5 with DJI at 8920.70 and then fell to 8100 three trading days later. 
              7/17/2002   AROC fell below -1.5 with DJI at 8542.48 and then fell to 7700 three trading days later.  
              10/7/2008   AROC fell below -1.5 with DJI at 9447.11 and then fell to 7500 seven weeks later.   

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