Tuesday, March 03, 2009

The light at the end of the tunnel...

The TSX 300 over a 10 year period


This morning on the radio they were quoting someone within the financial sector as saying, "The light at the end of the tunnel is a train ready to hit us at 100 mph.". How encouraging... I'm glad I blew all my money before the bottom dropped out of the stock market. However, now making that back is nearly impossible.

3 comments:

Andrew Cockell said...

the chart seems pretty typical, we climbed to an unrealistic high which is followed by a sharp plummet, seems like every other recession we have had over the last 90 years :P

probably would have happened sooner if it werent for 9/11 which ius what that other large drop is in the 1st 3rd of the chart

Rob Nelson said...

Actually, I believe the other large drop in the first 1/3 of the chart is the tech bubble bursting, while only a relatively small blip happened part way through 2001 due to 9/11.

Andrew Cockell said...

true...forgot about that pesky tech bubble...