To be honest, this website editor has completely given up on predicting market inflection points.

Because the tools available to the Banksters to totally control any "market's" direction, while looting the rest of us, are now too all powerful.

• High frequency trading strategies that can "paint the tape" and front run any trade
  
• Computer programs that can move trillions in the blink of an eye to change asset "valuations" in any direction they want them to go
• Changing the accounting standards at anytime to make them even more farcical, or more restrictive
• Off balance sheet accounting
• Shadow banking
  
• An over one quadrillion dollar, opaque, unaccountable, unmeasurable, unregulated, derivatives, financial.... structure
  
• Distorting statistical measures at any time to make them even more unreal, or more real
  
• Encouraging even greater corporate buy-backs (a trillion a year already), or discouraging them
  
• Simply using the leverage already built into the system to control key indices such as the VIX
  
• Creating more ones and zeros in their computers to buy more assets, exactly as the Japanese government has already done. Or to sell assets they don't actually own (naked shorting)
  
• Controlling the interest rates.  Endless iterations of ZIRP & NIRP
• Causing endless destruction of savers and their pensions
  
• Along with interest rate apartheid:  The wealthy can borrow at zero percent, whereas the little guy misses a single payment, and he'll be forced to pay twenty or thirty percent.
  
• Even enacting buy-ins to support the Banksters financial institutions if things really get bad

Even after they've already carried out their most recent, massive, artificial "stimulus" programs  (wealth transfer programs, or more accurately, transfer schemes of debt-claims on a society's resources / assets to themselves), they still have tens of trillions of additional fiat-debt-notes worth of financial ammo available to them. Which can be converted into hundreds of trillions worth of leverage at a moment's notice. To do whatever they want to do with the "markets", whenever they want to do it.

At this point, in this website editor's opinion, they could buy or sell the entirety of any market they choose, or all the "markets" for that matter.  At will.  Or counterfeit any number of countries' currencies they choose, and it's highly questionable, given the malleability, and unreliability of all available "financial" information, whether what they do would actually be perceptible to most other "market" participants.... at all.

There is no longer a "market", just as "there is no spoon".  There is a fictitious computerized, highly manipulated, financial information matrix, completely controlled, and altered at will by a tiny parasitical class.

Most of which doesn't represent any tangible, measurable, real property....at all

If paper "asset" valuations go up, or down, they will do so due to the political considerations, or even geo-political considerations, of this parasitical class. Or their collective decision to move more "debt-claims" against a society's assets, onto their side of the ledger.

These movements in asset valuations will have absolutely nothing to do with "market" forces, or "investment" considerations whatsoever. Just the parasites ability to manipulate them to their advantage.

Movements in valuations that will certainly NOT be caused by the puny, utterly insignificant, actions of retail or institutional investors.  Or of the fabricated economic indicators or statistical measures issued by the parasites.

Although the corporate media will constantly pretend that they do.

All this website editor can say, is according to the The Ten Year Economic / Warfare Cycle the Banksters are now twelve to eighteen months past their normal, timed, downward inflection point. 

As to why?  What are they actually planning?

You'll have to ask them. - mpg