Charts of the Week: Does a 20%25 Fall in Equities Really Signal a Bear Market?

May 30, 2022

5:00 am EDT|

2:00 am PDT|

5:00 pm HKT|

10:00 am BST

Duration: 15 Minutes

Earlier this month the S&P 500 equity index fell 20% below its January high. This threshold is traditionally interpreted as confirmation of a bear market.

Learn how to test this theory not just in the S&P 500 but in any equity index, then discover how to improve its reliability with some appropriate filters.

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TIM MCCULLOUGH

Technical Analysis Application Specialist

BLOOMBERG

Tim is the application specialist in Technical Analysis at Bloomberg LP in London, where he manages the rapidly increasing demand for charting and data visualization tools in EMEA.

He has over 30 years’ experience in financial markets, in trading, sales and research at major international banks, including State Street, UBS, BNP Paribas and Lloyds. He uses diverse but complementary technical methodologies, based on behavioral finance, to help Bloomberg clients to analyze sentiment in all asset classes and all conditions of volatility and liquidity.

In 2018 he additionally took an MSc in Financial Investigation, including a dissertation examining the dependency of financial markets on illicit flows from money laundering. He previously took a BA in Classics and is a full member of the Society of Technical Analysts in London and of IFTA.

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Charts of the Week: Does a 20%25 Fall in Equities Really Signal a Bear Market?

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