Has the Dow Jones already peaked?

We may have seen a major top in the Dow Jones, says John C Burford. The path of least resistance is now down.

Should we beware the Ides of March? So warned the soothsayer to Julius Caesar in 44 BC. He should have taken note because, according to Shakespeare, he was assassinated on that very date (which falls tomorrow this year).

That soothsayer could make a lot of money if he were around today and appeared on CNBC. And all the other stock market pundits would quickly be out of a job.

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John is is a British-born lapsed PhD physicist, who previously worked for Nasa on the Mars exploration team. He is a former commodity trading advisor with the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and worked in a boutique futures house in California in the 1980s.

 

He was a partner in one of the first futures newsletter advisory services, based in Washington DC, specialising in pork bellies and currencies. John is primarily a chart-reading trader, having cut his trading teeth in the days before PCs.

 

As well as his work in the financial world, he has launched, run and sold several 'real' businesses producing 'real' products.