The Bush vs. Kerry Ratio revisited

October 17, 2004 7:25am by

Last month, we looked at the Bush vs. Kerry Ratio. It’s a chart maintained by Martin Pring, a highly regarded market chartist.

Pring applied the tools of technical analysis to political forecasting. Last we looked at the chart — before the debates — the incumbent was sitting pretty. We noted our caveats of charting polling data, but had to admit it was an interesting concept.

I made the observation that “Pring does a nice job of presenting the data as an objective assessment. It will be curious to see if the debate tonight impacts this . . .”

Well, here we are, three debates later. Guess what?

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Graphic via Pring Research

The debates did have a significant impact on the charts. Here’s Martin Pring’s comments:

“First, the Bush/Kerry Ratio broke below its recent trading range. Second, the momentum in the bottom panel reversed direction and crossed below its moving average. Momentum buy and sell signals such as this typically last for at least a week. Note how the momentum peaks have been getting progressively lower in the last couple of months, even though the Ratio made a new high recently.All this spells serious trouble for Bush unless he can rally due to some unexpected event or debate performance.

Fascinating stuff!

Source:
Pring Research
Martin Pring
http://pring.com/2004election.htm

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  1. BOPnews commented on Oct 17

    The Bush vs. Kerry Ratio revisited

    Last month, we looked at the Bush vs. Kerry Ratio. It’s a chart maintained by Martin Pring, a highly regarded market chartist. Pring applied the tools of technical analysis to political forecasting. Last we looked at the chart — before…

  2. kayla commented on Oct 22

    DONT VOTE!!! GO SHOPPING!!

  3. Janet commented on Oct 22

    President Bush has proven to the world that he is a no nonsense leader. He truly is a faith led man who cares about this wonderful country of ours
    and has proven to us that he has our best interests at heart. Since he took office, he has had so many tough issues to deal with….and he has ” done us proud “…… much different than the last president we had, who was more concerned about self gratification than what was happening to us. We NEED to reelect President George W Bush and stand with him in these hard times.

    Hahaha — Just kidding . . . Had you going there for a while, didn’t I ?

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