Friday, August 5, 2011

Statistics about Dax down more than -15% from previous week's high

During this week Dax has dropped more than -15% from previous week's high.

In history we have seen such drops mostly in bear markets, but there have been few cases also during bull market as you can see from a picture above.

I wanted to find out if bulls have had any edge following this kind of crazy weeks.

Statistically next week's have been looking like following for bulls:



1 week 2 week 3 week 4 week
median -0,99 % 4,32 % 6,37 % 5,06 %
average 1,99 % 2,84 % 4,59 % 3,88 %
probability 47,62 % 61,90 % 76,19 % 61,90 %
max 16,12 % 18,50 % 22,12 % 21,40 %
min -10,16 % -12,05 % -17,25 % -22,12 %

The probability for rebound is not very promising even the averages and medians seem very high. If see any rebound, we should mostly expect it during the next 3 weeks. After 3 weeks, the bulls have lost the edge.

Next we want to know where the next week's high have been according to this week's close.



   high
median 6,31 %
average 7,58 %
probability 95,24 %
max 18,47 %
min -0,28 %

The same statistics for low compared to this week's close.


low
median -4,67 %
average -4,71 %
probability 85,71 %
max 2,38 %
min -16,04 %


Statistics for possible lower low:



       low
median 2,96 %
average 2,15 %
probability 38,10 %
max 16,95 %
min -14,01 %


According to history, lower low has only 38,1% succeed rate. It shouldn't surprise to see strong rebound, but it looks like very volatile next week. I would buy speculative longs from these levels.