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Still Testing 3900

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The rally from the first backtest of 3900 was over too fast to set up any possible possible divergence on the daily RSIs. That means that there are no possible daily RSI buy signals brewing on the US equity indices, and that is a strike in favor of the bears.

The inflection point here remains the same. The rally could resume from the important support in the 3900 area, or that area could fail into a retest of the 2022 lows.

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Withering Heights

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At this point, the chorus has become universal. “We’re oversold! The McClellan Oscillator has never been this low! We’ve been down seven days in a row!” And so on. One of the many headaches of a bear market is the endless yammering from the bulls about how This Is It and that We Have Bottomed. It’s really quite annoying. In recent days, these little lunges have taken place ceaselessly, although recently with far less verve.

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