Stock market quiz: Can you predict the market based on the trader's face?

The stock market is a roller coaster, rising and falling hundreds of points, sometimes in a single day. If it's stressful for investors, it wreaks emotional havoc on the traders who work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. As photographers have discovered over the years, the daily story of the stock market can be encapsulated in a single trader's face. Can you tell the market's performance based on the expressions of these traders? Take our 10-question stock market quiz:

2. It’s July 2002. The economy’s not bad, but it’s not great, either. These traders look concerned, but not panicked. Did the Dow:

Peter Morgan/Reuters/File
Traders watch President Bush speak on a television at the New York Stock Exchange in this file photo.

Gain 500 points

Drop 178 points

Plummet 800 points

Not move at all, which is why everyone in the back looks so bored.

Javascript is disabled. Quiz scoring requires Javascript.

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.