an- your dead cat bounce is simply a merging of opposing trends in various areas of the country. Real estate does not move up, down, like that. It picks up steam slowly, accelerates, slows down, turns. Its direction goes for many years. It is highly illiquid, slow moving. It doesn’t trade like stocks. I completely disagree with you about a dead cat bounce. Since this is a nationnal chart, you would obviously not use it to time the market.