{"id":950,"date":"2008-01-23T21:20:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T13:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=950"},"modified":"2008-01-23T21:20:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T13:20:32","slug":"wild-gyrations-of-the-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/wild-gyrations-of-the-markets-950","title":{"rendered":"Wild gyrations of the markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You would have noticed that the stock and currency markets have been on a wild ride over the last few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>You may be interested in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/exponential-logarithmic-functions\/dow-jones-industrial-ave-graph.php\">DJIA Model<\/a> which tracks the exponential growth of the Dow Jones index from 1945 to 2000. The index has been a lot less predictable since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The article describes how to model data using Excel.<\/p>\n<p>Notice also on that page that Japan's Nikkei Index is around the level it was in 1985. Markets do <b>not<\/b> always go up, despite what the fund manager salespeople try to tell us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do stock markets continue to grow exponentially? The Dow Jones Index did for many years, but has not continued the trend lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}