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Learn How Our Emotions Drove the Lost Decades of Depression!

Movies We Love In Times of Depression: Box Office Signals and Market Reactions in the 1930s, 1970s and the 2000s

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The weekly box office is one indicator of our collective emotional state of mind. It is one overlooked measure of emotion which has, since the popularity of movies started during the 1930s, reflected the mood of the nation every week. This book is a detailed review of the three depressing decades: the 1930s, 1970s and the 2000s, the first decade of the 21st century. If you only invested in the Dow Jones Index during these three decades, you would have lost 44% of your money over thirty long years. Isn't that depressing? What movies would you go and see? Disaster movies? Horror? Screwball comedy? Yes, all of these genres. When we are losing money, depression makes us want to see movies which cheer us up, provide an escape from our troubles or release from our tension and anger by watching someone suffering even more than we are. When the world is going against you, you go to the movies.

Learn how the great movies of the past marked the turning points of bull and bear markets. All Quiet On The Western Front was the top movie as the DOW started a 89% crash in 1930. Young Frankenstein turned the market around in 1974 and The Dark Knight preceded the Great Recession of 2008. The movie mood at the box office measures the emotional mood of investors. All you need to do is look back at the past. Imagine doing investing research every week by going to the movies! Sound like more fun that reading financial statements or divining chart patterns? Get started using the box office as an indicator of the emotional mood of the investing herd with this book.

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MarketBOB is a tracking sentiment indicator of investor confidence and emotion based on weekly historical data and proprietary analysis. The Movie Lovers Money Guide is an introductory instructional guides to money management.. All content is for instructional purposes and should not be construed as investment or financial advice, For specific advice and recommendations, an Individual should seek out professional advice based on individual circumstances.