Thursday, March 24, 2011

Days to Go Up and Down

Here is a quick analysis of how many days it takes all stocks to go up or down for  percentages: 1%, 2%, 3%, 5%  and 10%.  This is an average for the current list of stocks in the S & P 100; the study cover the closing price for the last 3000 calendar days.

So if you want to wait for a stock to go up 3% you must wait, on average 9 days.  And contrary to this for a stock to fall 3% you must wait a little more than 8.7 days - on average.

And here are the total number of events for each percentage:


It seems logical that the higher the percentage the more up events than down events because in the long term the market is up; and more often.

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