{"id":16359,"date":"2011-11-07T13:05:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T18:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=16359"},"modified":"2016-09-20T19:02:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T23:02:24","slug":"dow-jones-industrial-averages-biggest-daily-intraday-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/07\/dow-jones-industrial-averages-biggest-daily-intraday-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"Dow Jones Industrial Average&#8217;s Biggest Daily &#038; Intraday Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all of the volatility of late, why not take a look at daily and intraday moves over a \u00a0 long period for the DJIA . By far, 2008 has had some of the biggest daily moves, only second to the 1930&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>From a historical perspective, the recent action does not make a <!--more-->big showing in the Top 25 on a percentage basis.<\/p>\n<p>First is a look at the biggest net point gains and percent moves on an <strong>intraday<\/strong> basis:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bestworst_intraday_dow-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16361\" title=\"bestworst_intraday_dow\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bestworst_intraday_dow-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>*Intraday data starts 1\/2\/1987.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Next, the best and worst <strong>daily<\/strong> net point gains. Notice that there are several during 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bestworst-totoal-dow-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16362\" title=\"bestworst-totoal-dow\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bestworst-totoal-dow-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"471\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, the best and worst days on a percentage basis. The 1930&#8217;s takes the award.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/best_worst-longterm-dow-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16363\" title=\"best_worst-longterm-dow\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/best_worst-longterm-dow-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"473\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>**Earliest available date for daily gains and losses after 1\/1\/1901 is 1\/2\/1901 or the next trading day.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all of the volatility of late, why not take a look at daily and intraday moves over a \u00a0 long period for the DJIA . By far, 2008 has had some of the biggest daily moves, only second to the 1930&#8217;s. From a historical perspective, the recent action does not make a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[483],"class_list":["post-16359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}