DJIA Volatility - What Next?

So is this the start of something?

First, what we are looking at - a five day intra-day range of the DJIA divided by the five day average of the close - and the absolute level of the Dow 30 index.

Now, what next? Note the observation of the shorting ban is roughly contemporaneous with the Lehman failure... no claims as to causality, but we may be getting some additional insight into that with the recent moves by several markets within the EU to ban shorting... time will tell.

UEMPMEAN - UEMPMED: Structural Unemployment

So using the mean and median weeks of unemployment time series data from the Fed FRED, here is what the spread between the mean time and median time looks like... so as mean times increase relative to median times, this would seem to indicate either a larger sub-group of long term unemployed, or that sub-group is experiencing longer durations of unemployment, or both.

What changed in the 2001 recession that resulted in a higher floor for the spread?

US Regular Gasoline Price - Perspective

Courtesy of the EIA data set on the monthly average price for regular gasoline, above is a plot of the 12 month moving average...

SLV % of Shares Outstanding Traded Daily Redux

First, we have about a 16 month view of the shares traded as a percent of outstanding...



Next, we are looking more closely at my SWAG at the region where the share volume appears to be 'different'...



Here we have the 10, 30 and 90 day daily moving averages of the share volume...



And finally, the comparison of SPY share volume to SLV share volume. Enjoy and a tip of the hat to Mike in Long Island of the CR commentariat for the shares outstanding data!

SLV One More Time: Share Volume 10, 30 & 90 Day Moving Averages plus SPY vs. SLV

Data courtesy of Yahoo! Finance. Res ipsa loquitur.

New Record in Daily Trading Volume for SLV

Another record set today in volume of shares traded and percent of outstanding shares traded in a single day.

Chart refresher, the right hand axis is shares outstanding (blue area and blue numbers on right axis), the left axis is percent of the outstanding shares traded on a particular day (red line and red numbers on left axis). The average line is the arithmetic average of all days for period covered (green), and the monthly MA line is a moving average of 22 trading days (orange).

Bon appetit.

Edit: adding a somewhat longer view of the same dataset where there appears to be a distinct change in the volume traded as the price ramp got underway in September, 2010.

Daily Trading Volume of SLV vs. Shares Outstanding Redux

Once more, and with a hat tip again to Mike in Long Island of the CR commentariat.