User talk:Robertknyc

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--Tlmclain | Talk 21:11, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey!

Thanks for helping out on the crash of 29! I see you're from NYC. So, am I. See you around! futurebird 02:23, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Wall Street Crash of 1929

Hi, I see you are busy reverting vandalism at this page several times a day. Please make a statement on Talk:Wall Street Crash of 1929 concerning the Tuesday-Thusday controversy, to form a consensus on the wording. We can then have the page locked to anonymous editors if the IP continues vandalizing.--DorisHノート 10:55, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Panic of 1907

Hi Robert, thanks for the nice note. I tend to write a little quickly and it's very helpful to have somebody sweeping in behind me to catch mistakes or add details that I missed. I'm also going to check everything against Ron Chernow's House of Morgan. If you're a former JPM guy, you've probably read it. (I have friends at JP Morgan and one at Morgan Stanley, and they both say the companies still hand out copies of the book to new hires -- as big as those companies are imagine the boon for Chernow!) By the way, do you know a good site for historical Dow numbers? Specifically, I thought the article could really benefit from a chart showing the Dow from 1906-1908, or during some of the especially active periods. --JayHenry (talk) 22:43, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In my opinion House of Morgan is great through Pierpont and still good through Jack, but once it gets off into, you know, what Morgan Grenfell & Co. was up to in the 1960s I lost interest... If you could send me the data, I could easily chart it. (Can Bloomberg Terminals chart the Dow in 1907? They don't let me sit near one so I've never checked.) Anyways, please e-mail it to me if it's not too much bother. Any thoughts on what period would be best to graph? 1906-1908? Maybe March 1907 through December? NBER defines the contraction as May 1907 to June 1908. Not sure... I'm Jay

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com (with symbols to fool the spam bots). Thanks! --JayHenry (talk) 02:04, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dow Jones Industrial Average, weekly close, January 1904 to December 1909

I'm still tinkering with the design (and I don't have the software to make an OHLC chart, although one wouldn't really work with 250 opens and closes anyways) but I think this period -- January 1904 to December 1909 might be the way to go? I might drop opens and closes altogether because you can't see them since of course they're always between or equal the high and low. --JayHenry (talk) 03:50, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh geez, I can't believe I didn't catch the missing decimal. Obviously I knew the Dow didn't peak at 1030 in 1906!! That would have made for a century of dismal returns... I'm still playing around with color schemes. This one is definitely "too Bloomberg" especially since we're talking about 1900s. You think just closes would be better than every data point containing the high and low for the week? --JayHenry (talk) 04:12, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'll stick with weekly closes then. As to the second question, Excel's chart wizard does simple bar charts (it's under the Insert tab, under Chart, and you can select a variety of styles. You need to be able to load it into a photo editor to get it onto Wikipedia). What were you thinking in that regard? By the way, I added the 1903 to 1911 chart to the right here. --JayHenry (talk) 04:40, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reuploaded. I didn't add the text to the image for the simple reason that this way the chart can be used in non-English wikis and people can add the appropriate text to the caption. --JayHenry (talk) 05:01, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I tightened the y-axis. That's only the closing points in the current version of the chart. --JayHenry (talk) 05:18, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's a caching problem. If you're using Firefox go to this page and press Ctrl-Shift-R. If you user Internet Explorer press Ctrl and the refresh button on your browser. There's a new version of the image with all those things corrected, but it hasn't updated everywhere. For performance reasons I guess Wikipedia doesn't automatically update every page with an image, everytime a new version of the image is uploaded. I don't know how to refresh in other browsers, but it will probably be correct next time you come back to the computer. --JayHenry (talk) 05:45, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hahaha, you were probably seeing the exact same older version and thinking "this Jay guy is an idiot, he's not changing a thing!" Meanwhile I uploaded 5 different versions and forgot that they didn't automatically refresh on other people's computers. Heh, sorry about that! --JayHenry (talk) 05:52, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1919-21 bear market

Hi Robert -- do you still have access to historical DOW data? If so, would it be possible to get data for weekly close from Jan 1918 to the end of 1922? I was working on the article for the Recession of 1921 and thought a stock chart would be a nice addition. I'm slowly going through attempting to clean-up this whole family of articles: List of recessions in the United States. Thanks! --JayHenry (talk) 06:51, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Email sent Jay, good luck.--Robertknyc (talk) 22:22, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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