Many small investors sold their holdings too hastily in 1987 and are more wary of market swings.

When a market swings, their research shows whether a particular stock is far out of line with its relative strength in the marketplace.

So executives at the seminar said they were not focusing much on market swings.

They are often used as a form of financial insurance to protect companies and investors from market swings.

Part of that, he said, was a residual effect from last year when investors were shaken up by the market swings.

Many think this would lessen market swings and reduce the threat of another plunge.

And the market swings have prompted some workers to put off retirement.

The global economy is vulnerable to wild market swings, too.

Small investors need protection, the argument goes, against wild market swings.

And what if a wild market swing caused me to pull a hamstring?