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Peter Sellers

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Maybe it’s my imagination – – or, better yet, maybe one day I should just analyze it scientifically – – but doesn’t it seem every FOMC week is the same? Specifically:

  1. Day by day, the market creeps up higher as Powell approaches;
  2. The bastards at the Fed do their stupid announcement, and the market lurches a bit, but gets on its feet and really starts climbing;
  3. Powell answers softball questions (or ducks hard ones), and the market by and large holds strong right until the close.
  4. The next night, the world realizes the man doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing, and it sells off.

Indeed, the Russell (/RTY) got terrifyingly close to a breakout yesterday (circle) but retreated.

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