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Old 07-26-2012, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by GregWeld View Post
There's a statistic - and I'll get it completely wrong -- but for an EXAMPLE only -- the statistic says that the market moves UP 10% of it's total for the year on only 2 or 3 individual days. If you miss those days - you've missed a big percentage of the year.
I love this statistic Greg, found a good chart that explains it, check out page 2:

https://content.putnam.com/literature/pdf/II508.pdf
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