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Odds and Sods

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So are you as excited about the Vice Presidential Debate tonight as I am? Yeah. That’s what I thought. Anyway, I thought we’d thumb through some charts together. Generally speaking, this seems to be the market that Cannot Sustain a Selloff. Every stinking day, you get an end-of-day ramp, and the market is “saved”. It’s unnatural, it’s sickening, and, as hard as it may be for you to believe, it can’t last forever.

One market that doesn’t have a problem “staying sold” is the British Pound, which has fallen to a level not seen in decades. My advice? Go to London and buy stuff, I guess! Your dollar is strong!

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Support Holding So Far

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I haven’t posted the full set of charts that I do every morning for a while and these are the companion charts that I use in my premarket videos for Daily Video Service subscribers at theartofchart.net. I posted that on twitter before the open today (@shjackcharts), but if you missed that you can see that here.

On ES I was saying that the outlook remains bullish as long as 2146 remains unbroken, and the LOD so far is 2147.75. If that remains the LOD then the outlook still leans bullish. ES Dec 60min chart:

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