Five anonymised historical charts were dealt to every player. The Monkey Index returned +0.21% across the same tape.
97 desks completed all five charts.
Aggressive rate hikes were battering debt-heavy infrastructure trusts all autumn, leaving cell tower giants under relentless pressure. The next five days brought no respite, knocking a further 4.6% off the shares.
As aging baby boomers drove a massive surge in joint replacements, medical tech became the street's favourite growth trade in early 2007. That heavy buying finally paused, knocking -4.9% off the stock over the next five trading days.
The corporate migration to cloud computing was rapidly turning physical data-centre space into indispensable digital real estate. Traders took a quick breath right after this push, letting the price slip just 0.9% over the next five sessions.
The dot-com bust had left internet infrastructure for dead, but surging broadband traffic was quietly filling up data centres by late 2004. The stock took a quick breath here, grinding out a steady +1.2% gain over the next five days.
As the default barometer for American employment, ADP spent early 2014 catching the chill of a sluggish job recovery. The hesitation lingered into the next five sessions, knocking off a further 1.4%.