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Strategies & Market Trends : Buy and Sell Signals, and Other Market Perspectives

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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (27333)	12/6/2011 2:28:41 PM
From: Sam	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 219319

Here’s Why You’re Feeling Queasy By Mark Gongloff If the stock market lately feels to you like the world’s worst amusement-park ride, a rusty bucket on a rickety track with missing bolts, thrown together with dubious competence by a toothless drifter who requested payment in Mad Dog 20/20 — well, then, you’re right! It is exactly that. For evidence, Bespoke Investment Group put together this chart, in deceptively cheery Christmas colors, showing the wild, sickening swings the stock market has taken in the past several months. It’s enough to make you lose your lunch, or your portfolio, whichever comes first. Bespoke notes: Going back to the beginning of August, the S&P 500 is down just about 2%, but over that period the index has seen eight declines of 5% or more and eight advances of 5% or more. To put this volatility into perspective, there were two periods in the 1990s where the S&P 500 went more than a year without a single decline of 5% or more. Wheee. s.wsj.net

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