11.   How about investing after market drops of a certain percentage, which is more realistic since both highs and lows are unknowable in advance?

12.   How many investors bake cookies to console brokers during market drops?

13.   If securities prices decline rapidly, overextended investors can be forced to sell shares of stock to cover losses, perhaps amplifying the market drop.

14.   In contrast, Yanagisawa sparked a major market drop earlier this month when he predicted that the bad-loan cleanup would drag on for more than seven years.

15.   In the past year, he said, financial stocks have recovered quickly after one-day routs tied to a bond market drop.

16.   Just as some people buy options on individual stocks to guard against falling prices, investors can buy options on indexes to insure their portfolios against broader market drops.

17.   Later, less than an hour before the market closed, a weary Grasso offered that the market drop could have been worse.

18.   Last week, Wellenreiter told clients to short the market -- they would profit in a market drop -- as his technical indicators point to a coming decline.

19.   Moreover, rankings that use volatility as an indicator of risk may not catch potentially volatile investments until after the market drops.

20.   Most forecasters regard the market drop of the past week as a long overdue correction, rather than the start of a period of economic troubles.