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>>1116168
>Funny you left out 2015.
I left out 2015 for the same reason I left out 2011. Both were basically flat (2015 being slightly positive and 2011 being slightly negative).

That being said, I don't think you know what QE was. The government didn't buy equities or inflate equity demand. They bought fixed interest securities, increasing bank liquidity and driving down interest rates. Low interest rates caused some investors to increase their equity allocations, and that increased demand (and prices) by some degree.

Guess what? Interest rates were historically low in 2015 too, Oh by the way, they still are.

So your correlation argument has a lot of holes. QE might "artificially" inflate equity markets, and it might not. It didn't in Japan, which has a much longer history of QE than the US. The case is Europe is pretty mixed too.

The truth is, people like you don;t really need a justification to try to time the market, You see whatever pattern or signal or indicator you want to see, and then you make a guess. Your investment decisions are driven by emotion, but you dress it up with whatever argument makes you sleep at night. Good luck with that, snowflake.

>That's my only point here.
You haven't had a clear point the entire thread, other than that you have some bearish prediction, guess, or hunch about the future direction of the markets. Good for you, man, Every underperforming loser from Main Street to Wall Street says the same thing. So you'll just have to forgive those of us with a rational brain in our heads if we dismiss you as a kook and ignore your advice entirely.