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To: RayChuang88
The question is, how far can the stock market drop to?

Do you remember the late 70's? I remember driving home from work listening to the radio and hearing DOW trading volumes in the 20 to 30 million range and sometimes even less.

11 posted on 08/21/2015 6:29:07 AM PDT by MulberryDraw
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To: MulberryDraw

Remember, back then stock trading was done by hand and very slow (by 2015 standards) mainframe computers. That’s why 30 million shares traded was a lot in those days. Today, billions of shares get traded in a matter of seconds, thanks to modern supercomputers and much faster computer networks (much of it not connected to the public Internet).


13 posted on 08/21/2015 6:50:02 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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