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What happens after the Russell 2000 falls 5% in a week?
It has happened 66 times since 1997. A year after it began, the S&P 500 was up 47 of 66 times, with a median move of +12.9%. On an ordinary day in the same years the median was +11.7%, up 77% of the time.
Russell 2000 down more than 5% over a week. Not true on 2026-09-25.
What came next
| 1 month later | 1 year later | 3 years later | |
|---|---|---|---|
| S&P 500 | +2.4% 64% up · n 66 · normal +1.3% | +12.9% 71% up · n 66 · normal +11.7% | +33.7% 75% up · n 60 · normal +29.9% |
| Gold | +1.2% 59% up · n 66 · normal +0.4% | +11.3% 76% up · n 66 · normal +8.5% | +39.3% 87% up · n 60 · normal +36.5% |
| Oil | +0.2% 53% up · n 66 · normal +1.0% | +0.8% 52% up · n 66 · normal +6.2% | +26.5% 77% up · n 60 · normal +23.2% |
| 10-year yield (pts) | -0.02 pts 44% up · n 66 · normal -0.01 pts | -0.24 pts 41% up · n 66 · normal -0.12 pts | -0.19 pts 43% up · n 60 · normal -0.28 pts |
| Inflation, CPI y/y (pts) | -0.03 pts 44% up · n 66 · normal -0.00 pts | -0.29 pts 45% up · n 66 · normal +0.08 pts | -0.10 pts 48% up · n 60 · normal +0.06 pts |
| Unemployment rate (pts) | 0.00 pts 25% up · n 61 · normal 0.00 pts | -0.10 pts 41% up · n 66 · normal -0.30 pts | -0.40 pts 42% up · n 60 · normal -0.50 pts |
Median move after each episode began, how often it rose, and how many episodes had data. "Normal" is the same move from any trading day in the same years.
Every time it happened
- 2025-04-03 · true for 5 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +22.0%
- 2025-02-25 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +16.6%
- 2024-11-18 · true for 4 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +12.3%
- 2024-08-02 · true for 6 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +16.7%
- 2024-04-16 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +4.4%
- 2024-01-03 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +24.7%
- 2023-03-10 · true for 4 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +32.7%
- 2022-12-09 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +17.0%
- 2022-08-22 · true for 7 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +6.0%
- 2022-06-13 · true for 5 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +16.5%
- 2022-04-11 · true for 7 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -6.9%
- 2022-01-19 · true for 5 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -14.0%
- 2021-11-30 · true for 3 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -10.7%
- 2021-07-16 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -10.7%
- 2021-03-23 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +14.0%
- 2020-10-30 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +40.8%
- 2020-09-23 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +37.4%
- 2020-02-25 · true for 24 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +25.5%
- 2019-08-05 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +16.2%
- 2019-05-13 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +2.1%
- 2018-10-10 · true for 11 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +5.5%
- 2018-02-05 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +3.4%
- 2016-06-27 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +20.9%
- 2015-12-11 · true for 8 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +12.3%
- 2015-09-28 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +14.8%
- 2015-08-24 · true for 3 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +15.5%
- 2012-05-18 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +28.7%
- 2012-04-10 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +16.9%
- 2011-11-22 · true for 4 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +17.1%
- 2011-07-29 · true for 15 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +7.2%
- 2011-06-07 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +2.3%
- 2010-08-11 · true for 4 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +7.6%
- 2010-05-06 · true for 12 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +18.8%
- 2010-01-26 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +18.7%
- 2009-10-28 · true for 4 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +13.5%
- 2009-07-08 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +21.7%
- 2009-05-13 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +30.9%
- 2008-09-15 · true for 47 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -11.7%
- 2008-06-12 · true for 3 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -29.4%
- 2008-03-04 · true for 3 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -46.3%
- 2007-10-19 · true for 11 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -37.3%
- 2007-07-26 · true for 4 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -15.2%
- 2007-03-02 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -4.1%
- 2006-05-12 · true for 6 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +16.6%
- 2005-10-11 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +13.9%
- 2005-01-05 · true for 3 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +7.6%
- 2004-08-06 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +15.3%
- 2004-04-30 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +4.5%
- 2003-09-26 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +11.4%
- 2003-01-27 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +35.0%
- 2002-12-09 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +18.9%
- 2002-09-19 · true for 8 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +22.9%
- 2002-07-03 · true for 10 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +3.3%
- 2002-02-07 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: -23.2%
- 2001-09-10 · true for 7 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -16.7%
- 2001-07-06 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: -16.9%
- 2001-02-22 · true for 5 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -13.0%
- 2000-10-06 · true for 7 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -24.0%
- 2000-07-24 · true for 3 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -20.0%
- 2000-05-22 · true for 4 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -6.5%
The 60 most recent of 66.
Open this in the lab and play one of 26 episodes- 66 separate episodes: a new one starts after 30 days without a match, so one long selloff counts once.
- Try enough situations and one will look like an edge by chance.
- Macro numbers are as published at the time. Stocks include companies that later died.
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