
The risk of the double dip is in 2011, so all we've got now is a risk of a seasonal setback⦠this is the weakest season of the year now. Traditionally September is the weakest month in the year and you make a low in October. So I'm going for the normal seasonal deviation, which gives us a risk of about 15 percent. The economic numbers suggest if there's going to be a double dip, that takes place in 2011 and of course governments will be trying everything they can to stop that happening. Stocks are in a long-term secular trend which peaked ten years ago and has been in decline ever since. In the long-term trend there have been numerous cyclical bull periods, such as the one that peaked in April.
Then we've had a big fall, we had a mid-summer rally. That's all that's ended recently, was the mid-summer rally.
Hope that helps.
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Then we've had a big fall, we had a mid-summer rally. That's all that's ended recently, was the mid-summer rally.
Hope that helps.