From Daily Quant:
suppose if $SPY posts back to back to 1% losses on Fri and Mon
1) Current day Monday and $SPY lost more than 1% and...MORE
2) the previous day was Friday , and $SPY lost more than 1%
below the returns for $SPY for the next 1/2/3/4/5 trading days
21/23 times $SPY closed higher at some point of time over the next five trading days , with an average gain of 1.91% , barring the 27th Oct 2008 , the average still stands at 1.47% for the first positive exit over the next five trading days.
When both Fri and Mon are down by 1% or more on $SPY Date $SPY t+1 t+2 t+3 t+4 t+5 1st +’ve 13-Oct-14 187.41 ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? 7-Apr-14 182.61 0.41 1.49 -0.64 -1.54 -0.76 0.41 3-Oct-11 103.31 2.20 4.08 5.97 5.26 8.78 2.20 7-Jun-10 96.23 1.07 0.53 3.47 3.97 3.81 1.07 26-Oct-09 96.61 -0.47 -2.34 -0.25 -3.14 -2.42 -2.42 30-Mar-09 70.46 0.92 2.88 5.89 6.94 6.10 0.92 2-Mar-09 62.69 -0.75 1.60 -2.55 -2.38 -3.53 1.60 12-Jan-09 77.21 0.18 -2.98 -2.94 -2.18 -7.34 0.18 17-Nov-08 75.28 1.89 -4.65 -11.73 -6.96 -0.52 1.89 27-Oct-08 73.94 11.69 10.87 14.71 15.35 15.67 11.69 6-Oct-08 92.24 -4.49 -6.90 -13.39 -15.49 -3.22 -3.22 17-Mar-08 111.24 4.16 1.58 3.46 5.53 5.63 4.16 10-Mar-08 110.98 3.60 2.63 2.86 1.26 0.23 3.60 17-Dec-07 125.12 0.56 0.56 1.19 2.65 3.41 0.56 10-May-04 88.02 0.85 1.49 1.07 1.11 0.25 0.85 22-Mar-04 88.68 -0.17 -0.09 1.24 1.26 2.68 1.24 27-Jan-03 67.57 0.74 1.49 -0.90 1.01 1.20 0.74 11-Nov-02 69.65 0.79 0.89 2.80 3.56 2.51 0.79 7-Oct-02 62.45 1.55 -1.31 1.89 6.36 6.95 1.55 30-Sep-02 64.55 4.80 1.66 0.64 -1.22 -3.25 4.80 5-Aug-02 65.81 3.37 5.17 8.57 8.98 8.18 3.37 22-Jul-02 64.58 -2.74 3.07 2.18 4.13 9.21 3.07 6-May-02 82.57 -0.35 3.35 2.17 0.24 2.28 3.35 12-Mar-01 91.02 1.64 -0.36 -0.34 -2.34 -0.35 1.64 Avg 1.37 1.07 1.10 1.41 2.41 1.91 Med 0.85 1.49 1.24 1.26 2.28 1.55 Std 2.98 3.44 5.61 5.87 5.10 2.77 T-test 2.20 1.50 0.94 1.15 2.27 3.32