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NASDAQ Leading the S&P is a Bullish Sign

Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market Jun 04, 2018 - 02:22 PM GMT

By: Troy_Bombardia

Stock-Markets

The NASDAQ and S&P are both up this year from January – May. However, the NASDAQ has massively outperformed the S&P by more than 6%.

Here are all the historical cases in which the NASDAQ outperformed the S&P by more than 6% from January-May (while both indexes are positive), and what happens next to the S&P for the rest of the year.


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Here are the historical cases in detail.

2017

The S&P trended higher throughout the rest of the year.

2009

The S&P trended higher throughout the rest of the year.

2003

1999

The S&P trended higher throughout the rest of the year, although it did so in a choppy manner.

1996

The S&P trended higher throughout the rest of the year, although it did so in a choppy manner.

1991

The S&P trended higher throughout the rest of the year, although it did so in a choppy manner.

1983

The S&P trended sideways throughout the rest of the year.

1979

The S&P trended higher throughout the rest of the year, although it did so in a choppy manner.

1978

The S&P trended sideways throughout the rest of the year.

1972

The S&P trended higher throughout the rest of the year, although it did so in a choppy manner.

Conclusion

This is a medium term bullish sign for the stock market. It suggests that the stock market will trend higher throughout the rest of the year, even though it may do so in a choppy manner.

There was only 1 loss at year end out of the 10 historical cases. This was a tiny loss: -1.16%

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By Troy Bombardia

BullMarkets.co

I’m Troy Bombardia, the author behind BullMarkets.co. I used to run a hedge fund, but closed it due to a major health scare. I am now enjoying life and simply investing/trading my own account. I focus on long term performance and ignore short term performance.

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