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ES Quant Analysis

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The ESZ15 market closed another week up last week, this is the 4th week up in a row. By historical statistical means, it is not very common to see 4 or 5 weeks up in a row (or more). To give you and idea the most common pattern is one-two weeks up, followed by 1-2 weeks down. Obviously this does not happens ALL the times, but it does happen quite often.

Let’s have a look at the ES WEEKLY chart below, for the last 2 years, we have put a red arrow on top of each WEEKLY Close that was of this type:

1 Week up, then reversal next week (negative weekly Close/s).

2 weeks up, then reversal next week (negative weekly Close/s).

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Let’s Reclaim This Word

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Time for a mini-rant because, like the late, great George Carlin, I don’t have pet peeves: I have a zoo of major fucking psychoses.

I’d like us, as a people, to reclaim the noun “conversation”. To my old-fashioned way of thinking, a “conversation” is an exchange of ideas between two interested and engaged parties. I love a good conversation. They don’t happen often enough. I want to hear what you have to say, and if I have something meaningful to say in reply, I’d like to share it with you. Hurray, conversation.

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