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Fig. 2 shows the new predictions of the future of the US S&P
500 index using all the data from Aug.9,2000 to May.16,2003, illustrated
by (continuous and dashed) black lines. Again, the continuous line
is the fit and its extrapolation using the "super-exponential power-law
log-periodic function" discussed in the figure caption of figure
1, while the dashed line is the fit and its extrapolation by including
in the function a second (log-periodic) harmonic. We also present
the two previous fits (red lines) performed on Aug.24,2002 (shown
in Fig. 1) for comparison, so as to provide an estimation of the
sensitivity of the prediction and of its robustness as the price
evolves. The blue dots show the daily price evolution from Aug.9,2000
to May.16,2003. The large (respectively small) ticks in the abscissa
correspond to January 1st (respectively to the first day of each
quarter) of each year.
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