30 October 2008

Charts in the Babson Style for 30 October 2008


The broadest index here, the Russell 2000, suggest that we may have made an important bottom. We will look to see if this is confirmed by the other indices, and by the VIX.

The market is 'guilty until proven innocent' in a bear market downtrend.

As we stated earlier today our bias is to think this is end-of-month paiting of the tape. Do not expect the economy to recover or the financial system to gain efficient function in service of real economic activity until serious reforms are put in place.