Two Years in Four Days. DUUUU! from Kim Zussman
DOW return from last Thursday's close to today's returned what two "normal" years in stocks would have: 15.5%. Note there were only 10 other rolling 4 day returns which were higher (1928-present):
Date 4d
08/08/32 0.274
03/15/33 0.208
10/09/31 0.208
03/16/33 0.198
02/16/32 0.185
11/19/29 0.178
04/24/33 0.176
08/10/32 0.164
06/24/31 0.161
03/17/33 0.156
11/26/08 0.155
Today was also 4 up in a row (DUUUU), the first since April 2008 (man
that was a short recession!). The wait since last DUUUU was 155 days,
second longest in the series
Date wait
04/13/38 196
11/26/08 155
06/06/32 146
08/09/02 135
12/27/94 113
11/25/57 113
10/01/81 110
09/21/34 107
11/06/01 104
07/21/31 104
And the recent DUUUU was the second largest gain:
Date 4d08/08/32 0.274
11/26/08 0.155
07/25/32 0.137
10/15/02 0.133
06/23/38 0.127
06/01/70 0.125
08/01/32 0.120
10/14/74 0.118
10/20/31 0.117
10/30/87 0.111