First I want to say this is by far the best site I have ever seen in regards to trading. I noticed all of the sudden the Dow dropped nearly 40 points from 11:05 to 11:10 and then went up nearly 40 points from 2:35 to 2:45. Does anyone know why? Perhaps there was a newsline that I missed in redargs to this. Thank you.

Hi Flsupraguy,

Thats one of the better comments I think I have gotten on the site so thank you for that and welcome to the community.

I don't follow the market on a minute by minute basis but I do know that there were not any scheduled news releases on the economy out during those times. As you may already know the Dow is made up of 30 individual stocks so a big move from one of the component stocks can contribute to moves like you have discribed. I think most would also agree that 40 point moves are within the range that can be considered market noise and many times there is not a specific event that can be pointed to which caused the move.

This being said I may have simply missed something and the news outlets are pretty good at always trying to explain why the market is moving so here are a couple of headlines from around the times you have listed:

Stocks Move To The Downside In Late Morning Trading - U.S. Commentary | Grace Cheng

Stocks Moving Back To The Upside In Mid-Afternoon Trading - U.S. Commentary | Grace Cheng

Hope that helps.

Best Regards
Dave

Thank you Dave, I greatly appreciate the help.

my pleasure thanks for participating in the community.

Best Regards,
Dave