Brett Steenbarger has an interesting blog post Blog Traffic, Stress, and Coping in which he says ...a number of times traffic on this blog has increased significantly during periods of market downturns, frequently topping out just as markets bottom...

I have not noticed that correlation this time around with traffic on this site or forum. However, this is an interesting way to try and pick a bottom.

by oct 15 we come out of mercury retograde and you'll see the traffic die down

back test it and you'll see what i mean