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Coppock Curve

Categories: Financial Theory

This thing’s a little tricky to wrap your head around, but it’s more or less just a formula that helps read long-term market trends. The formula uses the rate of change experienced by an index after 11 and 14 months to come up with an average change.

You may be thinking: if the market has a randomly volatile and crappy year, how accurate could this possibly be going forward?

You’re right. In that case...it’s pretty worthless.

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