As of 05/14/2024
  Indus: 39,558 +126.60 +0.3%  
  Trans: 15,563 -65.99 -0.4%  
  Utils: 940 -0.54 -0.1%  
  Nasdaq: 16,511 +122.94 +0.8%  
  S&P 500: 5,247 +25.26 +0.5%  
YTD
 +5.0%  
-2.1%  
 +6.7%  
 +10.0%  
 +10.0%  
  Targets    Overview: 05/13/2024  
  Up arrow39,950 or 38,500 by 06/01/2024
  Up arrow16,050 or 15,300 by 06/01/2024
  Up arrow960 or 900 by 06/01/2024
  Up arrow17,250 or 15,850 by 06/01/2024
  Up arrow5,500 or 5,100 by 06/01/2024
As of 05/14/2024
  Indus: 39,558 +126.60 +0.3%  
  Trans: 15,563 -65.99 -0.4%  
  Utils: 940 -0.54 -0.1%  
  Nasdaq: 16,511 +122.94 +0.8%  
  S&P 500: 5,247 +25.26 +0.5%  
YTD
 +5.0%  
-2.1%  
 +6.7%  
 +10.0%  
 +10.0%  
  Targets    Overview: 05/13/2024  
  Up arrow39,950 or 38,500 by 06/01/2024
  Up arrow16,050 or 15,300 by 06/01/2024
  Up arrow960 or 900 by 06/01/2024
  Up arrow17,250 or 15,850 by 06/01/2024
  Up arrow5,500 or 5,100 by 06/01/2024

Bulkowski's August 2023 Forecast Update

Released 8/1/2023.

Below is the updated forecast for 2023 as of the close on August 1, 2023. Captions appear below the pictures for guidance, so be sure to scroll down far enough to read them.

On some of the charts (all except the CPI chart) the prediction in red 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.


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chart pattern indicator

This is a chart of the Chart Pattern Indicator (CPI) on the daily scale.

The CPI changed from bullish to neutral as the white vertical bar on the far right of the chart shows. It looks like the index might form a double top (not confirmed, but a second top near the price of the first one).

The next chart looks at the Dow industrials.
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Dow industrials chart

This is a chart of the Dow industrials on the daily scale.

The forecast of the Dow made back in January appears as the red line. The slopes of the Dow and the red line appear similar even though performance so far this year for the Dow has been below the prediction.

It's still on track to end the year higher than where it started.

The Nasdaq forecast is next.
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Nasdaq chart

This is the Nasdaq on the daily chart.

The Nasdaq has outperformed the forecast so far. It has already exceeded the end-of-year forecast as the blue horizontal line shows.

The next chart shows the SPX (S&P 500).
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S and P chart

Here's the S&P 500 index on the daily scale.

The S&P has exceeded the forecast but hasn't quite met the forecasted close (horizontal blue line). Note at A, about mid September, look for the index to peak and then drop toward the end of the month.

If that's accurate, it could be a buying opportunity as we near October. Notice that October ends higher than where it began and we continue mostly higher to year end.

The end.

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