the more viewpoints detailed that are shared here the better this thread will be.
If you or anyone looking for this type of analysis would like to have these posts stay visible for discussion instead of being swept off the page by the sheer volume of the Dow tipping competition posts, you can vote for the tipping competition to get its own >DJPIN< ticker so that DJIA thread can concentrate more on Dow and World market analysis.
There is a post at the top of the page for adding your thumb to this cause called :-
"vote to create own djia pin competition ticker"
The DOW is still very much a pulse of the world, and is most useful when used in context of other world factors.
When the Dow is over-layed onto almost any industrial reliant chart it will usually match closely and provide an indication of how far overbought/oversold the company/index in question is.