Trading or investing in stocks can be outright confusing. Even if you know the tricks, the right catch often seems far beyond your reach. Predictions fall apart and what is supposed to go down suddenly goes up. In short, the stock market always remains in a state of volatility, thus making predictions always difficult. The unexplained anomalies in the stock market makes it a trade difficult to pursue. But, there's another way to look at it. According to that, the stock market offers an extremely challenging situation which is otherwise rare in other sectors. Here are some interesting facts about stock market predictions that are weird and interesting at the same time.
2. Introduction
• Trading or investing in stocks can be outright
confusing. Even if you know the tricks, the right
catch often seems far beyond your reach. Predictions
fall apart and what is supposed to go down suddenly
goes up. In short, the stock market always remains in
a state of volatility, thus making predictions always
difficult. The unexplained anomalies in the stock
market makes it a trade difficult to pursue. But,
there's another way to look at it. According to that,
the stock market offers an extremely challenging
situation which is otherwise rare in other sectors.
Here are some interesting facts about stock market
predictions that are weird and interesting at the same
time.
3. 1. The Super Bowl Indicator
• The Super Bowl is the championship game for the National
Football League, but, it has an unusual way of making stock
market prediction. It runs like this a win from the NFC
indicates rise in the Bull Market. And the Indicator was almost
80% accurate. According to this theory, investors are required
to cheer for an old NFL team (most members of the NFC
division) to win over the other teams of the old AFL division.
5. 2. The interesting episode of
Takashi Kotegawa
• Takashi Kotegawa a Japanese day trader, rose to success within a
very short period of time. With a surprisingly successful trading
record in just eight years, Kotegawa turned about $13,600 into
over $153 million. His short-term goals and overlooking the
future market prospects is the secret of his success.
7. 3. Humble Start Lands Up Massive
Trades
• Though New York Stock Exchange is now one of the most
prominent trading platforms in the world, it's also true that
NYSE had a simple yet humble beginnings. Founded in 1817,
this trading platform has its actual origin back in 1792
following the Buttonwood Agreement. The saying goes that it
was the brainchild of 24 stockbrokers who met outside of 68
Wall Street, New York and signed an agreement under a button
wood tree.
9. 4. The evil September
• For the stock trading, September is always the evil as the
market performs the poorest in September. Since 1950, Dow
has dropped 1.1% and the S&P 500 has dropped 0.7% on
average in the month of September. Since 1971, the composite
index of NYSE has dropped at an average of 1% in
September. Such a phenomenon comes with plenty of
explanations but the one which is widely in use is that the
investors are likely to take a time off and go on vacations. No
wonder the price drops down.
11. 5. The eternal duel of Fractions
& Decimals
• Until the year 2000, the changes in the stock price was
expressed as fractions. However, that has made US lagging
behind other major stock markets like the London Stock
Exchange and Paris too, where the changes in the stock price
was indicated in the decimal format. Later, the US
congressional leaders enacted a law that makes decimal format
mandatory for indicating any such change in the stock price.
Understanding stock values will be much easier in this way.
• There are many other facts about the stock market trading.
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