Financial advisers and market strategists usually warn their clients that the market’s performance in the past is not a reliable guide for its future moves.
But when Citi’s Tom Fitzpatrick and his team overlaid the current chart of the benchmark S&P 500 with the index in 1987 — right before the crash — they got “the chills.”
On October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its biggest daily percentage loss, erasing 22.6% of its value. The S&P 500 also crashed.
Fitzpatrick is a top strategist at Citi and studies charts of trading patterns to forecast changes in the stock market.
Besides the similarity in the chart, Fitzpatrick cited four other reasons for his concern about the market right now.
He said in a note on Friday:
- There’s heightened concern about Europe and its banks. The UK has set a March 2017 date for when it will begin legal proceedings to exit the European Union, and Deutsche Bank failed to reach a CONTINUE @ BUSINESS INSIDER