Back to the Future

I don't believe in any of the (financial) stuff I write about on gummy-stuff, but it's often quite amusing if not downright entertaining. However, I'm quite surprised at how well the "Predicted Future" has done for my brother-in-law's stock ... so far: Of course, the problem with predicting the next month, starting today, is that ya gotta wait for a month to see if'n it was a reasonable prediction ... or not. So I thought it'd be neat to pretend that "today" is, say, a year ago. Then we can actually see the subsequent month and how well or poorly the "Predicted Future" was. For the DOW (moving back a year or so), I got this: and this (back another year) and this (back another year) Conclusion? Pretty lousy, I'd say ... but entertaining, eh? Want to be entertained? There's a clutzy (and too large) spreadsheet here: testing-1-2-3 I should mention that, sometimes, it ain't bad. Here's Microsoft (pretending that "today" is about 3 years ago):