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The price of gold over the past 8.5 years, compared to the first 8.5 years of the Nasdaq and housing bubbles.

I got 3 responses:

• “Looks like a chart of my brokerage account lately”
• “DJIA 1938-1939″
• “I think the chart is from 1929-1930″

Original image

DJIA, January 2002 to December 2002

2002!!!

2008 to Present

Ok, so it’s not a mirror image of the above. Present chart looks stretched in time. This was fun, but I’m disappointed that there’s not more resemblence. How easy would it be to use the old chart as a reference for trading!

DJIA, 1929-1930

I see vague similarities, especially at the start of the drop.

DJIA, 1938-1939

Wow, what a chopfest.

I’m getting more and more visitors who search for “triple bull s&p” and similar terms. Lots of “triple bull” searches. It started about 2 weeks ago.

Still quite a few “Great Depression charts” visitors but a lot fewer than in winter/early spring.

Of course, working with a very small sample here, but I’ll still be watching keywords for sentiment changes.

And here’s what’s going on with the “Great Depression” searches according to Google Trends. Looks like we’re entering a seasonal GD lull