Consecutive Gains and Losses in Market History

This analysis allows you to determine consecutive gains and losses in market index performance for a specified period of time within start and end date boundaries. The period of time can be day, week, month, quarter, year, or decade. In particular, this analysis can be used to determine the longest running time periods of gains and losses in market index performance. Moreover, consecutive gains/losses leading to the largest percentage (%) gains/losses can be determined.

1. Select a market index.
2. Select Gain or Loss to look for consecutive gains or losses, respectively.
3. Select the time window: Day, Week, Month, Quarter, Year, or Decade.
4. Set the analysis start date.
5. Set the analysis end date.
6. Select how the analysis results should be sorted: by percentage (%) gain/loss or by number (#) of consecutive gains/losses.
7. Run the analysis. The analysis result will show consecutive gains or losses for the selected market index for all time windows within the specified date boundaries.