What are the Trailing 91-Day, 183-Day and 365-Day Percentiles shown in the Members Area?
The full economic impact of any prolonged change in Consumer interest and activities can only be understood by analyzing both the level of our indexes and the duration of any extended deviation from the norm. A one day downward blip in the level of an index may have essentially no effect on an entire economy; but that same level, if extended over a quarter or a year, could be devastating. The index’s deviation from 100 is a measure of the current level of growth or contraction in the Consumer Sector of the U.S. Economy, but the consequence of such a deviation can only be understood by summing the daily deviations over the duration of the trend. What this means is that if you were viewing a graph of our ‘Weighted Composite Index’, the full economic impact of any prolonged deviation of the index above or below a value of 100 is best measured by the area between the graph line and the horizontal line representing value 100. This area ‘under’ the curve can be either positive or negative, d
