5 Interesting Facts about Stock Market Predictions

Introduction

• Trading or investing in stocks can be outright confus-ing. 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 in-teresting at the same time.

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.

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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.

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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 but-tonwood tree.

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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.

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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. Explore the world of web to know more.

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