Will the stock market (DJIA) fall 20 percent?

To clarify, this question will settle as "yes" if the Dow at any point falls to 8,000 during the life of this market.

that's OK but which year not mentioned 2008 or 2009 and it is set to suspend in 1 year

If you predict YES, you get a pay out any time the market first hits 8000. If you predict NO, you must wait A YEAR to see what happens! Makes no sense to predict "no", which totally slants this market.

Was this really written by an unbiased news agency? IMHO, lousy question...

this one makes no sense at all. should not be allowed see request 2

The questions asks if the dow will drop below 8000 before 2010. What's the problem?

@curios

read comment #1, last five words.
that's the answer to your question from comment #2

that's easy to answer since my first comment it was clarified . i took this your comment from the dashboard i was actually answering randburg before you put in your two penny worth. i suggest you look at things in order? it is not worthy of a wager i cashed mine in 2hrs ago and 19 hrs

randburg might be right in stating this question being lame.

I wouldn't predict "no" neither. But hey, the guys at reuters are humans too after all. They have to learn what makes the difference just like anyone else of us here.

Just because of the market being not very attractive it not a reason to void it right away.

I'm really hoping that this one will take a while.

So who's going to set up the next bar? And where should it be set? 7000? 6000?

Can someone with a good source please submit a settlement request with the exact time when it went below 8000 (it's somewhere between 9:36 and 9:38 am)

Certain people are betting large amounts after the result is known on questions like these. You know who you are. You really should know better.

I don't know the best source, but from Google Finance (http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ig&q=INDEXDJX:.DJI) the low says "7,882.51" and the plot shows a dip to 7,957.77 at 9:38, like you said.

Is the exact time important?

(I just copied the above to the "Request Settlement.")

That was NOT below 8000 from what I'm looking at!!

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI

Actually if you look at the low it is below 8000, something fishy is going on.

@cjg999 and others

Look at the plot again...

It still looks the same to me and the "Low" in the stats above the plot still says, "7,882.51."

What are you seeing?

According to this site:
http://finance.aol.com/charts/dow-jones-industrial-average/%24indu/dji
these are the times surrounding the drop below 8000
9:34 8117.71
9:36 7895.97
9:38 8087.76


Looks to me as if we should set the suspension and settlement time as 9:35 AM EDT

More comments?

Ahh, I see why the time is important (duh). Yeah, I'd say 9:35 is a safe time unless there's a better source out there. But I say if someone profited by getting a bet in the 30 seconds or so between the actual dip and 9:35, then so be it.

My apologies, I was zoomed out on my graph and the dip didn't go below 8000, but then I zoomed in and it did. I'm a dufus. Carry on...

The Google finance chart http://finance.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI has it listed at 7957.77 at 9:38 AM EDT

any other times??