That's a good point but it of course won't be appreciated. Besides, the hi & lo points are just temporary anyway & shouldn't really be used for comparison purposes. Altho, I have to say, true to your point, that the lows are much closer to reality, meaning the averages, than the ridiculous hi points. So the bottom line is 1) the lows are waaay closer to what vplm is and the trend has ALWAYS been CLEARLY downward. That can be seen by looking at the 10 yr chart (which shows almost 15 yrs), the 5 yr chart, the 1 yr chart, any of them actually. They all show the same thing......approx 95% of the times, it's going down and ALL peaks (there's isn't very many) are ALWAYS immediately followed by extremely prolonged downturns.
Picking out 1 cent or 45 cents for pointmaking is futile.