Even if one does not use technical analysis, it is a good idea to take a look at a chart now and then to maintain one's bearings in a market. It is a natural tendency to get caught up in the short term movements, to be affected by the hype and hysteria from the bulls and the bears, and to lose the bigger picture and the general intermediate trends.
It appears to us that we are seeing a lifting of US equities in response to a government sponsored program of reflation using monetary stimulus and creation.
The dollar is showing a commensurate decline as we might expect, since the increase in equities (and the long end of the curve) is being accomplished through dollar dilution.
"'I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’ No, father Abraham,’ the rich man said, ‘but if someone from the dead appears to them, they will repent.’ And Abraham said, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not change and repent, even if someone were to rise from the dead.’” Luke 16:27-31