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Market Internals; Prelude to a Crash? Part 2

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The following is an excerpt from the Market Sentiment & Internals segment of the October 16 edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 417, which also included technical analysis of US and global stock markets, precious metals, commodities and currencies and macro/market indicator analysis for an overall cohesive view on markets (which still appear in process to the favored plan of an inflationary phase after the expected market disturbance currently ongoing, plays out).

Up Volume has been draining and market breadth has been fading (ref. NYSE Advance/Decline page 10). This is a far cry from the Breadth Thrust we noted in the summer (thank you again to subscriber LN). Per LN’s analysis, the implication was for a temporary rally then further evaluation with the potential for some very bearish activity similar to 1987 (ref. Breadth Thrust: Prelude to a Crash? posted on July 12).

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Theranope

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After a long trading week, for no particular reason on Friday afternoon I decided to take a look at the Theranos home page. This “smoldering wreckage” of a company (as Fortune eloquently put it) is based in my beloved Palo Alto, and I like to check in from time to time based on some morbid curiosity.

What struck me immediately was the sentence they put front and center on the home page. The geniuses at the firm decided it would be a great idea to slap these words on top of a photograph that also happened to have a lot of lines on it, yielding an appearance of – – how shall one say? – – pig crap.

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House Safari Gets Some Press

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My iPhone app for real estate, House Safari, launched on October 5th, as announced in this Slope post. I’m pleased to say someone besides myself wants to talk about this product, as the biggest-of-the-big real estate web sites, Inman, has put the product front-and-center on its home page this morning.

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Here’s a link to the article, and more important for you iPhone (and iPad) users, here’s the web site where you can fetch the FREE app download! Please check it out! (And, to earn a higher place in our heavenly kingdom, toss me a nice review in the app store).