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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Ilaine who wrote (13972)	1/26/2002 6:50:06 PM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Now I think you are on to something, or at least I understand it. But it gets more complicated. For someone who bought a few years ago and then sold after the peak they may still have made a profit though their peak wealth fell. Some of the total is transferred from buyers to sellers, but a lot is just blown away as the relatively small amount of trade can leverage a big move in price. You'd want to look at the daily volume as percent of shares outstanding vs the percent price move. On days when the latter is bigger than the former in absolute value that is when market cap is evaporating rather than being transferred. You should be able to do a daily accounting exercise for each stock, with just OHLC and volume data as well as shares outstanding it would only be approximate but give some notion as to what was going on.

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