With all my nebbish-like hand-wringing of this morning’s post, in which I worried that the bears were so terribly at risk, I guess it makes sense that the bulls got piano wires wrapped around their throats. We went into an immediate dive following the opening bell, with the blowout earnings from banks having a positive effective on financial stocks as long-lived as a lucky high school junior during a successful prom night after-party.
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Is There Any Other Kind?
I think the bears could be in “grave danger” for two related reasons. First, we have either filled or are about to fill some important price gaps, and second, there is a fairly well-formed basing pattern over the past several weeks, as shown here on the S&P 500 futures:



