As of 12/24/2024
Indus: 43,297 +390.08 +0.9%
Trans: 16,063 +127.24 +0.8%
Utils: 993 +4.93 +0.5%
Nasdaq: 20,031 +266.24 +1.3%
S&P 500: 6,040 +65.97 +1.1%
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YTD
+14.9%
+1.0%
+12.7%
+33.4%
+26.6%
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 44,200 or 41,750 by 01/01/202516,700 or 15,500 by 01/15/20251,050 or 975 by 01/01/202520,500 or 19,300 by 01/01/20256,100 or 5,775 by 01/01/2025 |
As of 12/24/2024
Indus: 43,297 +390.08 +0.9%
Trans: 16,063 +127.24 +0.8%
Utils: 993 +4.93 +0.5%
Nasdaq: 20,031 +266.24 +1.3%
S&P 500: 6,040 +65.97 +1.1%
|
YTD
+14.9%
+1.0%
+12.7%
+33.4%
+26.6%
| |
|
44,200 or 41,750 by 01/01/202516,700 or 15,500 by 01/15/20251,050 or 975 by 01/01/202520,500 or 19,300 by 01/01/20256,100 or 5,775 by 01/01/2025 | ||
Initial release: 2/7/2024.
This is a chart of the S&P 500 forecast for 2024.
It shows the S&P 500 closing 8% higher for the year, at 5,166. The forecast low (lowest close) is in February at 4,663. The highest close is 5,173, which happens in late December.
Because this is early February when I'm releasing this article, only a portion of the year's results (price bars) appear on the chart. However, we can see that February should be the low for the year and it's the high. Oops. With interest rates forecast to drop this year, that's good for the stock market, so expect the index to rise.
Below is the forecast for the years after 2013, presented in slider format (think slide show). Use the arrows on the left and right side of the chart to advance to the next slide (or go back one slide). The circles at the bottom of the chart allow you to move from slide to slide easily. Click on the circle to jump to the associated slide.
The charts show the S&P 500 in black price bars and the forecast in red using the daily scale. The year is listed on the chart in the upper left.
The forecast is based on the work of Edgar Lawrence Smith in the 1930s. Smith said that the stock market followed a 10-year cycle. Each year tended to repeat the behavior of the year a decade earlier. In other words, if you averaged all years ending in 1 (2001, 1991, 1981 and so on), that would give you a forecast for 2011. For 2012, you'd make a similar average, only use 2002, 1992, 1982, and so on. That's what I did for the market forecast charts which follow.
The forecast hugged the actual performance until May.
The forecast only missed the ending close in the index by three percentage points and hugged the actual performance for most of the year.
The two lines chased each other until mid October, when the forecast diverged from the actual.
Notice that the forecast and actual performance missed by just one percentage point, even though the two lines diverged along the way.
Even though the forecast fell short of actual close by ten percentage points, the price trend mimicked the actual trend closely (except for the forecasted weakness going into the March low).
The COVID-19 pandemic took the markets down in a swift but short bear market in February to March, as the chart shows. The recovery took longer, though, as the markets looked to the future.
If we could flip the forecast upside down, it would better match the forecast.
After recovering from Covid, the two lines diverged so the prediction was the biggest miss since 2014.
The forecast was correct in that it predicted a close for the year below the open, but it missed the actual close by a wide margin.
The forecast tracked the actual move of the S&P 500, missing the ending close by just five percentage points.
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