Folks...I Need Some Help. (Dow Jones related)

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

Tell me what you're looking for. If your looking for the price history of a particular stock I can help you look up that stocks history.

There is just so much information out there, I am not sure why you aren't finding what you need.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Specifically, I'm looking for an overall summary of every day since Sept. 15 to today. An overall summary of what happened on every given day that the market was open.

 

[darkmatter]

I use this one: http://www.marketwatch.com/

You can look at any of the quotes and expand the parameters (dates)

Question? What good is it to look at the overall market; I find individual stocks don't track the major indexes. My view is you pays your money and the CEO's steal it. I once saw an experiment with a number of brokers and an imaginary 10k invested vs. a random toss of darts at a wall street journal listing---------you guessed it, the dartboard out performed every professional broker advice.

How do you make a small fortune with the stock market?---------start with a large one.

Yes, I have made money in the stock market by buying and holding. All of my co-workers who tried to time the market or deal in options loss everything they had. I like DRIPs and Blue chips.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

It's for a homework assignment that I didn't realize was due...I'm supposed to have just a summary of each day of what caused the overall market to happen that way. A release of some sort of technology, a bankruptcy, a trend in the market towards gold...etc.

Then I'm supposed to paraphrase what has happened in my own words.

 

[darkmatter]

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Hah!!!, good luck with that, I do read the daily summaries and noticed that the exact same story will be used by different "advisers" and "experts" to explain movements in opposite directions-------for example I've seen stories of a weaker dollar used to explain both raising and lowering Crude Oil prices. The only thing that seems consistent is with new technology------if you can find a company that is actually developing a new tech application------then there is profit to be made.

Here's a thought, if I could guarantee that 51% of my decisions are accurate, then I could be a millionaire on just the 1% difference! Since I'm not after 30 years of trying, turns out the DW was correct, I am full of chickenpoo.