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Backtest

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I’m feeling much improved today, which is a great relief as I’ve really been feeling under the weather for almost the last two weeks. I’m expecting to have thrown this off entirely by Monday 🙂

Stan and I did a free webinar looking at bollinger bands and RSI yesterday. The hour ran out quickly and we’ll be following it up soon to add what we didn’t have time to talk about yesterday. If you’re interested you can see the recording of that webinar here, and much of what we are talking about on RSI you cannot see anywhere else, as Stan and I have developed or strongly refined ourselves most of the methods we are looking at. We also had some things to say about trends and TA that you will find interesting if you are at all interested in TA.

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Odd Man Out

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Well, now it makes sense. Carefully-planned speeches and press conferences (last Thursday) from Yellen give the market a 1,000 point sell-off on the Dow. On the other hand, a mini-stroke on stage is just what the markets needed to rally overnight.

Interest rates are up. S&P is up. NASDAQ is up. Crude oil is up. There’s just one exception, with a double-digit dip:

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Why the odd man out? Why is gold left out in the cold? Do you really have to ask? Yesterday:

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Senior Prom

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Since I have absolutely nothing new to say about the markets, I just thought I’d close out the day to briefly comment on the remarkable event at the end of Yellen’s speech, which many Slopers watched live and commented upon in this post. The speech itself wasn’t particularly exciting (to put it kindly), and Yellen actually has an oddly soothing voice which was lulling most of us into a gentle sleep. Very near the end of the speech, it was clear something was wrong. I thought she was missing the last page of her speech, or she had become very, very lost, and watching this real time, it was pretty surreal…….

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