Fifteen Market Charts To Watch In 2025

In April last year I took a look at the market potential for a downturn that ultimately, never materialized. That scenario was negated by the break of the March high during the summer, followed by a sequence of higher highs and higher lows as part of a bull market cycle. So what will 2025 bring? First off, I took a look at search-sentiment. How many people have searched for the term "market crash" in the United States? More often than not, these spikes - when they occur - are more often associated with major market bottoms than market tops. When we match the search spikes to a chart of the S&P we can see how nearby market lows turn into major market lows. The odd one out could be the June 2024 search spike as there was barely a pause in the advance, not something we have seen during other search-spikes, with the possibe exception of the February 2018 spike. However, what I do like about the 2024 spike is how it occurred around a solid psychological suppo...