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Re: First Five Days of 2009 May Indicate Stock Market’s Performance

cashdoctor — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:39:09 -0000

Well the five days have gone by and where are we 8952 started and ened at 8750 LOOKS like we are going to have a DOWN year onthe stock market
No one is talking about this. Everyone is IGNORING THE FACTS.

Re: First Five Days of 2009 May Indicate Stock Market’s Performance

Jeff Rose — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:24:27 -0000

@ Flexo

I hope you're right on this because today was definitely a good start. Nice way to start off the year.

Re: First Five Days of 2009 May Indicate Stock Market’s Performance

Writer's Coin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:01:28 -0000

Most definitely not! Relying on this kind of thing is baaaad news. Same as all the junk sports announcers always use: "Teams never come back when they're down 0-3 in a best of seven series."

Until it actually happens (see Red Sox). I would urge readers to try to ignore they even heard this.

Re: First Five Days of 2009 May Indicate Stock Market’s Performance

Harlan Landes — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:52:18 -0000

Jasper: That's a good question, I'll see if I can put the numbers together.

Re: First Five Days of 2009 May Indicate Stock Market’s Performance

Jasper — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:41:34 -0000

You calculated a success ratio based on years where the first five days showed growth. Did you also calculate the correlation/ratio for years where the first five days showed a (strong) decrease?