What would happen if you played the stock market using...?

Question

The same type of chart analysis skeptics use to indicate the "cooling trend"? Looking at this graph, would that mean it's time to sell short ?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/Instrumental_Temperature_Record.png

Answer 1

What would happen is that you would be buying and selling stock every single day based on the short-term increases and decreases.  If a stock value dropped for the day, you would panic and sell it.  If a stock price rose for the day, you would buy it.

Consequently you would be buying high and selling low, and losing a lot of money.

Answer 2

You miss the point in your question. 150 years is a blink of the eye in terms of history. How about we look at a more meaningful time period.

The last 2,000 years

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index....

Notice we are at the average for the last 2,000 years.

450,000 years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ice_A...

Notice we are in  a 120,000 year increase. Which is really good for us.

And for the real long term, notice how cold we are compared to earth's history.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Ima...

Being that the stock market has been around for (1870-2007)  137 years or so, and the earth has been around for some time longer (let's just use the 60 million year for this example as it equates to the graph), your looking at 155 years of global temps would be equivalent to looking a 3.5 hours of the stock market out of the total 137 years. Seems to me, you are the one who would go broke.