Consolidation of US Stock Averages

Coming into 2015, the major US Stock Market Indexes like the Dow Industrial Average and S&P500 were not areas where we wanted to be putting new money to work. Not only did we have failed breakouts around the holidays which is always a bad sign, but I felt we needed some consolidation, or digestion, of the gains over the past few years. Markets can consolidate gains in one of two ways, either with a downside correction in price or sideways through time. The latter is obviously the healthier version of the two.
Today I want to take a look at a few of the Major US Stock Market Indexes to show how these averages have been consolidating over the past several months. The first one is the S&P500 representing 500 of the largest corporations in America. Look at price trading within these two converging trendlines and essentially at the same price that it was in early November:

The next chart is the Dow Jones Industrial Average which includes 30 humongous US Stocks. Notice how similar this pattern is to the S&P500. Prices are right where they were in early November and trading within this symmetrical triangle looking formation defined by two converging trendlines:  (more)
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