Talk:Wilshire 5000/Archives/2018

horrible article

Hey, if somebody is going to list highs, why not by the minute? why not inflation adjusted? why not? Are highs more important than lows? Than running averages? citation needed. This article is poorly structured and obviously biased. One obvious problem: what is this American Stock Exchange that is mentioned in the lead? The link is NOT to the Amex (since that does. not. exist.) but to NYSE American, unfamiliar to most who will ever click on this article. If there is some useful information on the fraction of the Wilshire which is composed of stocks trading ONLY on the NYSE American exchange, and this article contains NONE, then it MIGHT be useful to include this bit of historical trivia. The "history" section contains some facts of minor historical interest and completely FAILS to put the index into any broader historical context AND completely fails to place it into context with other broad indices of GDP related commercial activity. It needs to be said (for the unexperienced or ilnumerate) that there can not be a single metric which fully describes value of publicly traded (SEC regulated) stock, and this article fails to do that as well. I fail to understand why including a silly summation formula is useful, it certainly doesn't merit its own section. The article claims that "the index" is actually 5 indices. Well, ok, if true but if there is any MEANINGFUL difference between them (and if not, why mention it?) then they don't all share the saem highs and lows, right? The Jan 5, 2018 high is mentioned. How is that noteworthy? The other "whole market" indices aren't incorporated into a discussion of the use of the Wilshire, because there is no such discussion. The basics; What, Where, Who, How, and Why are completely ignored. Why aren't any criticisms of the index included? Why is there no context? The very fact that the name is Wilshire 5000 yet it only covers 3600 stocks is surely worth an explanation. Very poor and virtually useless article, as far as I can see.98.21.65.102 (talk) 19:30, 7 January 2018 (UTC)