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Forks in the Road (by Springheel Jack)

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Every so often you reach an important fork in the road where a market must take one way or the other, and once taken, the option not taken becomes very low probability. Yesterday was such a day. I told my brother in the morning that if we were going to see a major top on equities in 2012 then that was likely to be yesterday around 1440 SPX. Obviously QE3 was announced in the afternoon and 1440 was broken with a lot of confidence. I'd like to see that confirmed with a weekly close today over 1450, but I'm now no longer seriously considering the possibility of a major top in equities in 2012, and am writing off all the huge bear patterns that have formed over the last three years on many instruments and indices as a huge bear trap. I'll be expanding on that with various charts in the next few days but it what it is, and we are where we are. The trend is now most likely up well into 2013. 

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