Super Bowl rule

Super Bowl Rule

An indicator that few follow seriously stating that a Super Bowl win by an NFC team will result in a market uptrend for the coming year, while a win by an AFC team portends a downtrend. The Super Bowl indicator has been correct more than four years out of every five, but most believe this to be simply coincidence.

Super Bowl rule

A technical indicator that holds that if a team from the American Football Conference wins the Super Bowl, the stock market will decline during the year, but if a team from the National Football Conference wins the Super Bowl, the stock market will experience an up year.

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It's a littleknown Super Bowl rule - so little-known that I am the only one who knows it - that you must always back the team who won earlier in the season at Wembley.

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are fighting back against the White House's anti-immigrant policies in a flurry of Super Bowl TV spots. The ads do not mention the president directly, in part because Super Bowl rules prohibit commercials "for viewpoint or advocacy of controversial issues," but quickly prompted political debates over the Trump administration's policies on social media. 