{"id":38335,"date":"2018-09-26T09:40:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T14:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38335"},"modified":"2018-09-26T09:40:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T14:40:10","slug":"why-are-so-many-people-talking-about-the-potential-for-a-stock-market-crash-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38335","title":{"rendered":"Why Are So Many People Talking About The Potential For A Stock Market Crash In October?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why Are So Many People Talking About The Potential For A Stock Market Crash In October?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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\"\"<\/a>It is that time of the year again.\u00a0 Every year, people start talking about a possible stock market crash in October, because everyone remembers the historic crashes that took place in October 1987 and October 2008.\u00a0 Could we witness a similar stock market crash in October 2018?\u00a0 Without a doubt, the market is primed for another crash<\/a>.\u00a0 Stock valuations have been in crazytown territory for a very long time, and financial chaos has already begun to erupt in emerging markets all over the globe<\/a>.\u00a0 When the stock market does collapse, it won\u2019t exactly be a surprise.\u00a0 And a lot of people out there are pointing to October for historical reasons.\u00a0 I did not know this, but it turns out that the month with the most market volatility since the Dow was first established has been the month of October<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

The difference is quite significant, as judged by a measure of volatility known as the standard deviation: For all Octobers since 1896, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average was created, the standard deviation of the Dow\u2019s daily changes has been 1.44%. That compares to 1.05% for all months other than October.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like me, you are probably tempted to think that the reason why October\u2019s number is so high is because of what happened in 1987 and 2008.<\/p>\n

But even if you pull out those two months, October is still the most volatile<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

You might think that this difference is caused by a few outliers, such as the 1987 crash (which, of course, occurred in October) or 2008 (the Dow suffered several thousand-point plunges that month as it reacted to the snowballing financial crisis). But you would be wrong: The standard deviation of daily Dow changes is much higher in October than other months even if we eliminate 1987 and 2008 from the sample.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why Are So Many People Talking About The Potential For A Stock Market Crash In October? It is that time of the year again.\u00a0 Every year, people start talking about a possible stock market crash in October, because everyone remembers the historic crashes that took place in October 1987 and October 2008.\u00a0 Could we witness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[195,4106,8535,21216,7581,21217,21218,1732,6061,6125,1849,7196,21316,4754,21317,15959,21781,21318,6065,480,488,4427,506,4901,536,9627,21918,6066,1615,6585,1138,4562,3783,21919,2731,16878,21920,5221,753,21921,7452,8645,6540,21319],"class_list":["post-38335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-debt","tag-debt-crisis","tag-emerging-market","tag-emerging-market-currencies","tag-emerging-market-currency-crisis","tag-emerging-market-debt-crisis","tag-emerging-market-economies","tag-emerging-markets","tag-financial","tag-financial-marketplace","tag-financial-markets","tag-global-debt-crisis","tag-global-financial-marketplace","tag-global-financial-markets","tag-global-panic","tag-going-into-debt","tag-into-debt","tag-investor-panic","tag-investors","tag-lending","tag-loans","tag-market-volatility","tag-markets","tag-michael-snyder","tag-money","tag-october","tag-october-2018","tag-panic","tag-spending","tag-stock-bubble","tag-stock-market","tag-stock-market-bubble","tag-stock-market-collapse","tag-stock-market-collapse-2018","tag-stock-market-crash","tag-stock-market-crash-2018","tag-stock-market-volatility","tag-stock-prices","tag-stocks","tag-stocks-are-overvalued","tag-the-economic-collapse-blog","tag-the-u-s-dollar","tag-u-s-stocks","tag-what-is-coming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38336,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38335\/revisions\/38336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}