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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 3377090, member: 76863&quot;]It definitely is that it isn&#039;t a good indicator just like the DOW isn&#039;t a good indicator of stocks.&nbsp; Anything that is a catch all never really shows what&#039;s actually happening.&nbsp; Bull and Bear markets always have sections performing in the opposite manner.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The DOW was reaching records highs yet GE was crashing, during the crash with the PM run up there were still stocks doing very well etc.&nbsp; It applies to whole sections too where the energy sector can be doing the opposite of the market charts.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as coins I do call it a hot mess because it is everything and some of which are randomly selected grades or appear to be.&nbsp; 1793 Chain Cents shouldn&#039;t be in the same charts as 1937-D MS 62 Buffalo Nickels as one of countless examples.&nbsp; Classic commems have been falling for decades, common date common grade morgans falling for quite some time as they should be and it goes on and on.&nbsp; It&#039;s a wonder that it ever actually is able to go up at all which is only a reflection of the true strength of many areas but catch all charts will never tell you that.</p><p><br /></p><p>The point is that the broader a chart tries to be the less useful it actually is and once it&#039;s about everything it&#039;s really telling you nothing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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