Comments on: 50 Fun Facts About The Stock Market

By: Red Envelope

Red Envelope — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:44:03 +0000

really? then i shouldn’t get information from this website…

anyways.. Gong xi Fa Cai!(Happy Chinese New Year!)
gong xi fa cai, hong bao na lai!

By: jjs

jjs — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:09:38 +0000

and tommy agres with me, he dislikes the stock market azzz well, LADDZ

By: jjs

jjs — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:08:17 +0000

what a wast of time, i think i just got dumber whilst reading, thanks stock market…… :/

By: jjs

jjs — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:06:09 +0000

dope facts bros. that made learning fun and interesting lol jks its soooooo boring

By: max

max — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:07:49 +0000

For school project: Why do the people stand on the platform at the end of the NYSE. Who are they and why do they clap?

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:00:10 +0000

Actually the Wall St. wall was constructed in 1653.

By: BOB

BOB — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:22:58 +0000

While it is a common point of discussion that it took 25 years to recover from the crash of 1929, this really isn’t entirely accurate.

The 1929 example, and others like it, foster a giant misconception that colors the decision-making of many investors. Mark Hulbert wrote an excellent article on this subject last year, in which he made several crucial points. One was that looking only at the price of the Dow over those 25 years, rather than its total return, leads to a distorted conclusion:

“Dividends also played a big role in stocks’ recovery from the 1929 Crash and subsequent bear market. Consider the stock series constructed by Jeremy Siegel, a finance professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and author of the classic book ‘Stocks for the Long Run’. He shows that, for all intents and purposes, stocks on a total-return basis in late 1936 and early 1937 had risen back to their September 1929 high, before entering into another bear market. This puts the recovery time at a little more than four years from the stock market’s July 1932 bottom.”

Hulbert went on to point out that the 30 Dow stocks really weren’t representative of the stock market as a whole:

“It turns out that the particular stocks that were included in the Dow in the 1930s and 1940s performed significantly less well than the overall market. Perhaps the most celebrated example of how unrepresentative the Dow was then: The now-infamous decision Dow Jones & Co. made in 1939 to remove International Business Machines from the list of the 30 Dow stocks. (IBM was not added back to the list until decades later.) According to Norman Fosback, the DJIA would be more than double its current level if Dow Jones & Co. had not made that decision.”

By: Tina

Tina — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:26:36 +0000

thankyou very much! Im doing a presentation on it for school. This helped alot. thanks!
-Tina-

By: HI

HI — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:54:31 +0000

Hello i’m doing a project on stock market do you have any more tips or things that can be usefull

Thank you

By: bannana

bannana — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:13:33 +0000

ummm i have to do a project and i need facts on the stock market crash when they all ran to the banks to get their money

By: olivia

olivia — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:10:45 +0000

im doing a report on the stock market and if i can get some info/ that would b great!

By: Me

Me — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:00:15 +0000

WOOT! I lovez da stok marketz!

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:45:01 +0000

Does anyone know how the DJIA was calculated
when it hit 1000? The formula was later changed.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:07:37 +0000

Jim-

Thanks for the facts.

Dr. J-

Astute clarification;)

By: Andee Sellman , One Sherpa

Andee Sellman , One Sherpa — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:37:02 +0000

Great list of facts.
We certainly live in a world of increasing volatility which will make investing all the more interesting.