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Re: Is it just me, or is the market dead?



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During the last 5 days I have an 8 point average range for the ES.


 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MT" <mtzianos@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: Is it just me, or is the market dead?


> Gary Fritz wrote:
> > 
> > > Just bringing up a year-old thread, maybe stimulate a discussion.
> > > Very different picture this year though ...
> > 
> > Yes indeed.  I re-ran that calculation with data (daily SP, not
> > SPY) up through yesterday.  (And this time I made sure to use
> > non-adjusted data. :-)
> > 
> >       Avg Daily     Avg
> >         Range      Price     Rng/Price
> > 1998    17.64     1091.53     1.62%
> > 1999    20.85     1333.98     1.56%
> > 2000    26.36     1439.12     1.83%
> > 2002    19.89      994.76     2.00%
> > 2003    14.52      936.73     1.55%
> > 
> > So the current ranges are lower in absolute terms and in % of
> > price terms than we've seen since 1997.  How low will they go?
> > Who knows.  I wouldn't expect them to go back to the pre-1997
> > levels of 0.75% ranges.  It's a different world now.
> 
> Well, apparently we're in the pre-1997 levels for some time now (since
> mid-summer), if you do a half-yearly study.
> 
> MT
> 
>