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What happens after the S&P 500 falls 5% in a week?
It has happened 127 times since 1928. A year after it began, the S&P 500 was up 74 of 127 times, with a median move of +8.2%. On an ordinary day in the same years the median was +9.4%, up 69% of the time.
S&P 500 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 | +0.8% 54% up · n 127 · normal +1.1% | +8.2% 58% up · n 127 · normal +9.4% | +27.2% 68% up · n 125 · normal +25.7% |
| Gold | 0.0% 44% up · n 72 · normal 0.0% | +2.5% 55% up · n 73 · normal +2.9% | +6.2% 55% up · n 71 · normal +10.4% |
| Oil | 0.0% 47% up · n 72 · normal 0.0% | 0.0% 48% up · n 73 · normal 0.0% | +15.1% 59% up · n 71 · normal +8.9% |
| 10-year yield (pts) | -0.01 pts 46% up · n 76 · normal +0.01 pts | +0.05 pts 53% up · n 76 · normal +0.09 pts | -0.38 pts 36% up · n 74 · normal +0.06 pts |
| Inflation, CPI y/y (pts) | 0.00 pts 45% up · n 121 · normal 0.00 pts | -0.35 pts 39% up · n 127 · normal -0.01 pts | -0.75 pts 42% up · n 125 · normal -0.04 pts |
| Unemployment rate (pts) | 0.00 pts 29% up · n 75 · normal 0.00 pts | -0.10 pts 43% up · n 80 · normal -0.20 pts | +0.40 pts 53% up · n 78 · normal -0.40 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 4 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +22.0%
- 2024-08-05 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +21.5%
- 2022-09-01 · true for 6 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +13.8%
- 2022-04-26 · true for 10 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -2.9%
- 2022-01-21 · true for 3 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -9.7%
- 2020-10-30 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +40.8%
- 2020-09-08 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +35.5%
- 2020-06-15 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +38.5%
- 2020-02-25 · true for 13 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +25.5%
- 2019-08-05 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +16.2%
- 2018-12-10 · true for 5 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +18.8%
- 2018-10-11 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +8.9%
- 2018-03-23 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +8.2%
- 2018-02-05 · true for 4 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +3.4%
- 2016-01-08 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +18.5%
- 2015-08-21 · true for 4 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +10.8%
- 2014-10-15 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +8.7%
- 2011-11-22 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +17.1%
- 2011-09-22 · true for 3 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +29.3%
- 2011-08-02 · true for 7 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +9.7%
- 2010-06-30 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +28.1%
- 2010-05-06 · true for 4 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%
- 2008-12-23 · true for 15 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +29.8%
- 2008-09-15 · true for 21 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -11.7%
- 2008-01-08 · true for 4 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -34.8%
- 2007-08-15 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: -8.1%
- 2007-03-05 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: -3.4%
- 2003-01-27 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +35.0%
- 2002-06-25 · true for 14 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -0.1%
- 2001-09-18 · true for 4 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -15.8%
- 2001-02-22 · true for 5 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -13.0%
- 2000-12-20 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: -9.9%
- 2000-11-13 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: -15.7%
- 2000-10-12 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: -17.9%
- 2000-05-23 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: -6.2%
- 2000-04-14 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -12.8%
- 2000-01-28 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: -0.4%
- 1999-10-15 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +10.2%
- 1999-04-19 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +11.8%
- 1998-08-04 · true for 10 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +21.8%
- 1997-10-27 · true for 3 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +21.5%
- 1997-04-02 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +49.3%
- 1990-10-11 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +29.1%
- 1990-08-06 · true for 5 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +16.8%
- 1989-10-13 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -10.1%
- 1988-04-20 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +19.5%
- 1988-01-12 · true for 3 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +14.9%
- 1987-11-30 · true for 4 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +17.6%
- 1987-10-09 · true for 10 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -10.6%
- 1987-05-20 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: -9.2%
- 1987-04-13 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -5.0%
- 1986-09-11 · true for 5 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +36.9%
- 1982-11-16 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +22.6%
- 1982-08-09 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +55.3%
- 1982-03-08 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: +40.9%
- 1981-08-27 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: -5.2%
- 1980-12-10 · true for 2 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: -2.0%
- 1980-09-29 · true for 1 trading day · S&P 500 a year later: -6.2%
- 1980-03-07 · true for 3 trading days · S&P 500 a year later: +21.5%
The 60 most recent of 127.
Open this in the lab and play one of 29 episodes- 127 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.
- How these numbers are made.
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