CCM Bull Market Sustainability Index (BMSI)
Ciovacco Capital Management has been working on an index to predict the sustainability of bull markets or the BMSI . Basically the goal of all investors is to determine when to let your winners run and when to dump stocks. Any of these indexes are generally based on the concepts of the Leading Economic Indicators that we harp on so much. For example, the spread in the short and long term interest rates is a huge indicator of future economic growth. That indicator flat lines and people should flee stocks. Not sure they've posted all of the 30 leading market indicators included in the study, but its interesting to note that it still flashes an extremely bullish case. Basically the same numbers as back in late 2004 before the market made its run over the next few years from 1,150 to 1,550. As usual such indicators are always designed with the numbers that would've predicted the past corrections and booms. Sometimes though they aren't that great at predicting the future. Change...