Maybe don’t use this theory if you’re trying to be a finance guru. The aspirin count theory is a not-so-real theory that relates aspirin sales to the markets. Really, it’s a joke.
When the markets take a hit, crabby traders need aspirin to deal with the headache, thus making the sale of aspirin pop. When the markets soar, the sale of aspirin declines because no one has a headache...until the morning after they’ve celebrated.
(We’d rather redefine it to relate to the masses. Aspirin Count Theory: The fact that you’ll only lack aspirin when you have a headache. Other times, you won’t need it, but you’ll have a ton.)
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Finance: What is the Dow Theory?11 Views
Finance allah shmoop what is dow theory Well it's a
push me pull you index Yeah like you know the
doctor do little lama thing with the overall average of
the dow thirty stocks here and the dow jones transport
index here where one goes well generally the other follows
that is they are highly correlated in price and one
is basically an indicator of where the other is heading
Why Well originally the dow transports were railroads which appalled
all the crap that the dow industrials made so you'd
think that one would follow the other And if the
push me pull you thing didn't work for you well
take a short look at this caterpillar crawling you know
like that one part goes forward and then the other
follows Well dow theory is one of a good gillian
black box crystal ball theories that charters tried to use
to predict how the stock market would run in the
future so that they could profit from those predictions And
like all other black box theories they work sometimes even
very nicely for a while with high prediction levels That 00:01:08.293 --> [endTime] is well until they don't No
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