Fearful, I get your rationale about why the downside will likely mirror the upside and I agree. But in reading your post you alluded to Rich tracking the NOD’s and every month he posts the new chart which includes the last cycle. Every month I look at it to see if it has tapered off or jogged down for one month because stocks and other equities don’t go up or down in a straignt line, they tend to look like an EKG readout. It also was a little jumpy in the last down cycle. But the NOD graph Rich posts looks like the flight plan for the space shuttle, it’s almost a straight line up and each month it just keeps going straight up. It is that graph alone that makes me doubt my own belief that this crash will follow the rules.