Let me first profess that I am not an avid follower of cycle charts. They generally take too much tinkering for my taste as they never quite fit over the long haul. However, as I was flipping through some of my longer-term charts, I ran into a chart I created last year. I was determining visually whether the very long-term bull and bear market cycles were telling us anything regarding that first large correction of the year. My sense was that we were extraordinarily vulnerable to a deep correction/bear market and the cycles were lining up.