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Ho Hum (by Springheel Jack)

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SPX continued the slow low volume grind up into the end of the week. ES has so far ground up a little further overnight. SPX came within 4 points of testing the April high on Friday and I think there's a very  good chance that that will be exceeded and the 1440 area SPX pivot will be tested. I was talking about the technical significance of that test in my weekend post at MarketShadows which you can see here. In the meantime I have short term trendline support in the 1405 and 1398 areas, and on a break below those the daily middle bollinger band is now at 1386:

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What to Do in Case of a Malware Attack

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What prompts me to write this is today I clicked on a link in Digg and it launched a malware attack on my computer. Luckily when the pop up happened I knew what to do – which was NOT click on anything in the webpage. I just opened my task manager and stopped Internet Explorer before any damage could be done.

I'm fortunate it was a lower grade attack and that solved the problem.  I've dealt with this shit before so hopefully this may be helpful to some of you

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