loki01 monk's chart info for you, page-8

The thing that strikes me about this chart is that 1996 & 2005 were meant to be hard times, but were probably pretty good actually. 2001-2002 were probably tougher as were 2008-9. I wonder if it needs recalibrating?

Hermes was a poster who used to post on the gold thread back in 08, he used to reckon that you should buy when the year ends in 3 (eg 2003) and sell when the year ends in 7 (eg2007). So out of every decade there are 5 good years and 5 bad.

Martin Armstrong used to think that there was an underlying cycle in the markets of 8.5years.

I've wondered in the past if the 8.5 year cycle is connected with the US presidency. For instance a bad president gets voted out when things are bad and is replaced by someone better who then can survive two terms (8years) before the public change back to the other party again. Hence this might be the reason for the predominance of the number 8 in Martin Armstrong's work and the monk chart.