The market looks so whacky to us that we cannot resist. Another installment of Guess The Dow is at hand.
This time, a twist. Not only must you be the closest to the Dow's close without going under (reverse Price Is Right rules) but you must include a reason (plausible or otherwise) for the index's performance with your entry.
The wheel is closed to betting 10 minutes before the bell. In the event of a tie we will award to the earlier entry.
GO!
Update: 8083 makes undisputed Guess The Dow champion "guest" the winner with this entry: "8090 - free pretzel day at the AMEX."
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 2:56PM
8080. Reason - banks, banks, banks! BAC +30%, Kenny seen running around wearing MW pic on backside shorts and a nothing else.
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 2:58PM
8090 - free pretzel day at the AMEX.
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 2:58PM
42
Das Vadanya & hello from Russia!
- Equit Privat
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 2:59PM
8101 mah n39ro3s
-MoneygripWisdom
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:00PM
8075
reason- WFC, short squeeze... and Michelle Car Cab farting on camera
Posted by Lowly Assistant , Apr 09, 2009 3:00PM
8112 - WFC successfully burns all MBS paper in a canyon just outside Malibu. This will continue until authorities are notified that the smoke is contributing to global warming. Polar bears are pissed. Penguins refuse to procreate. Whales continue migrating towards the BK bridge. So it goes.
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:01PM
7961-
people want to go close longs before the close
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:01PM
@ 3
how much money (i.e., charity) did russia receive from the U.S. for nuclear weapon security?
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:02PM
7500 - Meredith Whitney just called me
Posted by american bandersnatch , Apr 09, 2009 3:08PM
This guess the dow thing is lamer than hephaestus.
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:09PM
8105 - according to elliot wave theory, we are in a subwave 5 of 4 of 7 of a primary 2 of subwave 4 of grand cycle wave 2. also something about fibonacci levels.
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:13PM
@8
Da, it is not my fault that your country spend $4trillion, by 1960, on a pointless arms race. You force us to do same so we bankrupt, too.
Das Vadanya,
- Equit Privat
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:17PM
8120 - we are safe now that Bernie Madoff is behind bars
Posted by Killjoy , Apr 09, 2009 3:18PM
8134 - its where the headless chicken landed
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:18PM
8065.20 bob doll called me
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:20PM
@10 the only thing lamer than hephaestus is comments that reference hephaestus.
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:21PM
8098 because i LOVE Fishsticks!!!!!!!!
Posted by BobMD , Apr 09, 2009 3:21PM
7990
because god loves us
Posted by frankthetank , Apr 09, 2009 3:22PM
8118
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:25PM
8102 - Ken Lewis is actually a woman and is about to be outed, and the markets are happy....
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:26PM
8200
Because that's the price that Geithner and Bernanke agreed the market would close at.
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:29PM
8071, because if he dies, he dies.
- Ivan Drago
Posted by Meatbone9 , Apr 09, 2009 3:29PM
8011 because everyone knows that the stress tests the banks put themselves through were honest and upstanding - the worst is clearly behind us.
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:37PM
8008 because it looks like "boob" and traders need some of that right now. just a handful.
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:38PM
8008 because it looks like "boob" and traders need some of that right now. just a handful.
Posted by bondguy007 , Apr 09, 2009 3:38PM
8127, because the douche's that sold at 7000 are buying back in now thinking we've hit a bottom. Idiots!!!!
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:39PM
8010 - bc we are playing reverse price is rules
take that @23
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:44PM
7995. Going in to the weekend some market players take some chips off of the table given a moderate run-up since Tuesday. Heck I did!
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:45PM
8040 - stress tests euphoria... pass the Peter Lugar's steak sause... the BS on my plate tastes better with little sauce
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:47PM
8115 because my net worth just went up...to 8115. yay gambling
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:50PM
8013 xcc
Posted by Lowly Assistant , Apr 09, 2009 3:51PM
Fuck. 8052 - I was ambitious.
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:53PM
8110 because my dick is huge
Posted by guest , Apr 09, 2009 3:53PM
come on 40 more points n39ro3s!
-MGW
Posted by Meatbone9 , Apr 09, 2009 3:56PM
@27 pretty sneaky sis....
Posted by HAM05 , Apr 09, 2009 4:06PM
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/20816/?ck=1