If you dare!

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If you dare!
Yesterday evening, I was pissed and irked to see the ES rip higher based on the announcement that the Vice Premier of China would be heading to Washington. Turns out I got all worked up over nothing. The area I’ve tinted shows the spike, which the market has wisely concluded is beyond all measure of unimportant. I’m seriously not sure what these algos are thinking.
I had an interesting graphic sent to me this morning showing the top twenty-five tech companies. Most of these are familiar U.S. names, although some of you might not recognize all of them (like TenCent, for example, which is Chinese, although they’ve got a nice building here in Palo Alto). Click on the graphic for better legibility.