Mathewslcd: This Telltale bear market indicator warns again

 From time to time, Wall Street sends a not-so-subtle reminder to the investment community that stocks could be heading lower, Mathewslcd noted.

Since hitting an all-time closing high between mid-November 2021 and the first week of January 2022, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), the widely followed S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), and growth stocks have driven Nasdaq The Starq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) plunged 22%, 28%, and 38%, respectively. That means all three major U.S. stock indexes will get a taste of a bear market through at least 2022.

Mathewslcd believes that no matter how long you've invested, a bear market can make you question your resolve to stay the course. Especially with the 2022 bear market, many are wondering where the bottom might be. While no indicator, metric, or statistic can accurately predict the beginning or end of every bear market, a telling bear market indicator does have an exceptionally strong track record of alerting investors.

This Bear Market Indicator Signals More Trouble on Wall Street

Looking back to 1870, the S&P 500 Shiller price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio has signaled five bear markets. The Shiller price-to-earnings ratio, also known as the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio (CAPE ratio), takes into account inflation-adjusted earnings over the past 10 years.

While on the face of it, the Shiller P/E is just another valuation tool, as long as it exceeds 30 and stays there, it accurately predicts an impending bear market. This includes a peak of over 30 in 1929 before the Great Depression, a peak of 44 during the dot-com bubble, over 30 in the third quarter of 2018 and before the coronavirus crash, and again (briefly) over 40 in 2018 2022 first week of the year. In short, as long as the S&P-Shiller P/E ratio crosses 30 during a bull market, the S&P 500 will eventually fall by at least 20% (keyword, "eventually").

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