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Algebra Difficulty 3.0 AMC 10/12 Prove it Canada

Prove that it is not possible to create a sequence of 4 numbers $a$ , $b$ , $c$ , $d$ , such that the sum of any two consecutive terms is positive, and the sum of any three consecutive terms is negative.

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