I think I have something. The 1 day % change in the SPX is broken in to parts: U for the stocks going up and D for the stocks going down. The 1 day % change in the SPX is equal to U minus D. In normal times money flows either into stocks or out of stocks so that when U is large D is small and visa versa. The past few weeks, U and D have both been large, causing the great volatility of recent. It may not be predictive, but U&D have concise definitions and should be useful for confirmation of events.
U D SPX 03/17/00, 1.7769, 1.2245, 1464.47 03/20/00, 0.9019, 1.5390, 1456.63 03/21/00, 2.6858, 0.2296, 1493.87 03/22/00, 1.5791, 0.9852, 1500.64 03/23/00, 2.3240, 0.6131, 1527.35 03/24/00, 1.0046, 0.9327, 1527.46 03/27/00, 1.0631, 1.2465, 1523.86 03/28/00, 0.4604, 1.5958, 1507.73 03/29/00, 1.5874, 1.5572, 1508.52 03/30/00, 0.9098, 2.2195, 1487.92 03/31/00, 1.5991, 0.9032, 1498.58 04/03/00, 2.2985, 1.9710, 1505.97 04/04/00, 1.1751, 1.8587, 1494.73 04/05/00, 0.8813, 1.4736, 1487.37 04/06/00, 1.6618, 0.8105, 1501.34 04/07/00, 1.8832, 0.8182, 1516.35 04/10/00, 1.0245, 1.8605, 1504.46 04/11/00, 1.1133, 1.4342, 1500.59 04/12/00, 0.8903, 3.0065, 1467.17 04/13/00, 0.4232, 2.2107, 1440.51 |