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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:

9. Jan. 9, 2006: The trader on the right looks thrilled, but his colleague on the left seems cautious. What does that mean for the stock market?

Henry Ray Abrams/AP/File
This file photo shows two traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Buoyed by a five-day rally, the Dow closed above 11,000 for the first time since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

After plummeting 300 points earlier in the day, the Dow rallied, making its total losses only 50 points

Stock indexes were mixed: The trader on the right had a great day; the trader on the left did not.

The Dow lost 600 points on the day. The man on the left has seen it; the man on the right has not.

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