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Charting the Possibilities

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There are obviously thousands of possible outcomes to the equity markets following Thursday morning’s pre-market CPI release, but I wanted to sketch out three of them just to muse on the topic. There’s not a doubt in my mind that Thursday January 12th will be the most important and exciting trading day of the year so far. All three of these charts are of the S&P 500 /ES equity futures market. Here’s the first:

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