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You are looking at the data for 12/18/2014 when the Dow closed up 2.43%. Today, 02/05/2018, the Dow dropped 1,1175. The number one drop. Very important distinction.
I meant the max drop today was well over 5%, or about 1600 points. It recovered some from there, but point wise the closing numbers are still the worst on record.
Today has caused some ripples in other markets. Australia is down 2.5% right now, and the Nikkei is down nearly 5%. The Hang Seng is down 3.2%. All of these exchanges still have a long day of trading ahead of them. If they don't pull up, we may see another blooodbath here tomorrow.
I meant the max drop today was well over 5%, or about 1600 points. It recovered some from there, but point wise the closing numbers are still the worst on record.
You can say you were wrong, we all make mistakes. What you posted with that chart was a simple mistake and even 5% still doesnt even crack that list of top 20 worst days, raw points don't matter. One of the biggest crashes in history was "Black Tuesday", October 29, 1929 when the Dow dropped a whopping 30 points...points don't matter.
Why is Fox News not talking about it or Trumpians?
Every single time the stock reached some major milestone up, they were crediting Trump immediately.
Biggest weekly loss in 9 years? Silence!
I was too busy buying with two hands when we hit the 1500 point loss and didn't have a free hand to type. My ONLY regret is that I didn't switch my Roth IRA the vix fund over the weekend. We are at or very close to the correction that was needed. We did hit the 10% mark today which is usually the bottom or close to the bottom. It wouldn't surprise me if we have a turn around Tuesday and remain flat the rest of the week. Next week is Chinese New Year and other Asian holidays are celebrated around this time of year so Asia markets will be quiet. I expect that the bond markets will level off by the end of the month too and once that happens we will get a better picture of what Powell want's to do with further unwinding of the Feds debt. I would have liked it if Trump had made a flippant comment about how markets go up and down just to quiet the detractors like the OP who don't know much about how markets work.
Putting your money where you mouth is can be a hard thing to do.
I already said I dollar cost average, and I certainly am not going to be told how to invest by someone who doesn't understand math and/or how percentages work.
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