For the first time this year, these indices managed to close higher for the fourth trading day in a row. The DJIA scored only 75 such runs since January 2000, with 13 occurring in 2007. Overall, since 1950, positive four day results account for only four percent of all closes.
The NASDAQ has 471 such sets since its inception in 1971. Whereas this figure represents five percent of all trading days, there were only 11 of these in 2007 and 65 since 2000.
As for the next trading day, since 2000, the DJIA continued to move higher on just 32 days, but fell on 42 days.
The NASDAQ scored further advances on 33 days and had only 31 days with a lower close.
DJIA .07 percent
NASDAQ .37 percent
S&P500 - .09 percent