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Find The Best & Worst Days To Invest In The S&P500 Using Python
The best and worst day to invest
Disclaimer: The material in this article is purely educational and should not be taken as professional investment advice. Invest at your own discretion.
In this article I will attempt to determine the worst & best days for returns in the market by using the python programming language.
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To do this analysis, I will be using about 29 years worth of data from the S&P500 which is made up of 500 large cap companies in the US stock market, and is considered as a benchmark for the US economy.
The idea is to gather stock data from the S&P500, and get the daily simple returns for each day. Once I have that, I plan to average the daily simple returns for each dayand display them visually using a graph. This I believe will tell me the best and worst days to invest.
