in Complete S&P Miss http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aM76hi1IDeOo Ranked Performance of Eight Technical Indicators Indicator 10/09/2007 - 3/09/2009 Relative Strength Index -49.0% Williams %R -41.7% Commodity Channel Index -38.7% Parabolic Systems -36.6% Bollinger Bands -31.5% Stochastics -24.1% Directional Movement Indicator +24.0% Moving Average Convergence/Divergence +25.9% S&P 500 -56.8% -------- Indicator 3/09/2009 - 5/01/2009 Commodity Channel Index -8.3% Williams %R -8.3% Bollinger Bands -6.6% Stochastics -3.3% Directional Movement Indicator -1.9% Moving Average Convergence/Divergence +7.8% Parabolic Systems +8.2% Relative Strength Index +21.8% S&P 500 +29.7% -------- Indicator 10/09/2007 - 5/01/2009 Williams %R -43.1% Commodity Channel Index -40.3% Parabolic Systems -34.3% Relative Strength Index -34.1% Bollinger Bands -22.2% Stochastics -21.8% Directional Movement Indicator +9.0% Moving Average Convergence/Divergence +24.6% S&P 500 -43.9%