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V-V-Very Irksome

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Went I turned my monitors off Sunday evening, it looked like we were going to be in for a good, hearty red tidal wave on Monday morning. Nope! Nope, nope, nope. Can’t have that! Would upset the masses! Thus, after the gap (red arrow) and a nice, steady slip-slide lower, at the magical hour of midnight people (or, more accurately, the government) started falling all over itself to buy up stock futures to turn things higher, in spite of…………well………….everything.

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