Description: Investors can forget the “death cross,” “bearish divergences” and “symmetrical triangles,” and what the Federal Reserve says it will do about interest rates, and just focus on Occam’s razor: The S&P 500 abandoned its long-term uptrend in late August, meaning it is now in a downtrend.

Source: MarketWatch.com

Date: Sep 18, 2015

Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/occams-razor-says-the-stock-market-is-in-a-downtrend-2015-09-18

Questions for discussion:

• Explain Occam’s razor, in this situation.
• Do you agree with the assessment?