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The great sages tell us that all things seek balance. "Seeking balance" implies at least some swinging back and forth across some "per­fect" point, tracing a sinuous line as momentum rises and falls.

With a little contempla­tion, the natural movement of the market becomes "in­tuitively obvious", as Profes­sor Pyle, my old statistics in­structor often said. It sure is easy to see a trend when one is looking backward in time.

Thus a problem is created for us human beings, as we are all hard-wired to quickly identify patterns in things. The end of the trend is the tough call, especially when a di...