>>>My brother (who used to be a stock broker and is still very active on the market) called me this morning (at 8:30 am) and said that the market will go up 1000 points today.
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>>One step at a time. It is quite enough to change market trend, big numbers will come later. General market was oversold to extreme point so potential is huge.
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>I am sure the big number is just a guess and speculations. Time (and not just one day) will show.

The stock market is just guess and speculation. It is legalized gambling on top of a pyramid scheme. Now everybody (gambler or not) gets to pay for the gambling losses. Otherwise the gamblers would be the only ones to lose.