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MissmarketsThe S&P 500 sets a new bear-market low in 2023, below its 2022 trough.
A scored prediction by Benjamin Cowen, made on .
Scored prediction
Missmarkets“there's a high likelihood unfortunately that the s p will be putting in a new low this year”
The S&P 500 sets a new bear-market low in 2023, below its 2022 trough.
- Made on
- 2023-01-04
- Outcome
- Miss
- Importance
- 4 / 5
- Effect on score
- -2.48
What counted as right
- Status
- resolved
- Settled on
- 2023-12-31
The S&P 500 trades below its October 2022 low (~3,577) at some point during calendar 2023.
Criterion: S&P 500 trades below its Oct 2022 low (~3,577) at some point in 2023. The 2023 low (~3,808, March 13) stayed comfortably above 3,577; the index made no new bear-market low in 2023 and closed the year up strongly. Full year elapsed; resolved.
Sources
SP500: Bear Market Structure, Recessions, and the Federal Reserve
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Evidence of what happened
The S&P 500's bear-market closing low of 3,577.03 was set on 2022-10-12 (intraday ~3,491.58 on Oct 13, 2022). This is the reference trough the criterion cites (~3,577).
The S&P 500's LOWEST level in calendar 2023 was ~3,808 (closing low 3,808.10 on 2023-03-13, around the SVB banking stress); it never traded below the October 2022 low of 3,577 at any point in 2023 and instead rallied to ~4,769 by year-end.
Corrections
No public corrections.
Effect on the score
-2.48- How sure they sounded
- 90%
- Outcome
- Miss
- Importance
- 4 / 5
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Where this came from
The S&P 500 sets a new bear-market low in 2023, below its 2…- Methodology version
- v1.0.0
- Last computed
- August 2, 2026
- Made on
- 2023-01-04
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