Ulcers are aggravated by stress. The more you worry, the more likely you’ll start getting those searing pains in your stomach.
The appropriately named Ulcer Index attempts to quantify that situation. It's a technical indicator that tracks the level of downside risk in the market. It answers the question: how worried should you be that your investment is about to go south?
Not only does it attempt to answer this question, it tries to do so as precisely as possible. Like...with precise numbers that can be graphed and studied and plugged into algorithms.
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Finance allah shmoop What is the consumer price index or
c p i All right prices They change Five bucks
buys a whole lot less today than it did two
hundred years ago Well here's what Five bucks buys you
today And here's what Five bucks bought you in Seventeen
Ninety three house five horses Nice stuff Well tracking prices
is the key to understanding what inflation is doing in
the world or how much of it we have So
in amalgam of e con experts put together a basket
of goods designed to reflect generally how the average consumer
if there is such a thing feels inflation in their
wallets Will those prices air tracked copiously like monthly ish
and then published as an index number that's evaluated relatively
like if this is last month's cp i which saturday
one hundred seventeen point three two while this month's number
one hundred seventeen point five three shows inflation at a
pace of about two and a half percent annually And
blah blah blah blah So what's in that c p
ay basket that's tracked well there's a bus pass in
a major metro a pound of coffee a half gallon
Carton of milk funeral A flu shot movie tickets And
on and on and on basically all the stuff that 00:01:21.408 --> [endTime] makes life priceless What No
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