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Pushing Toward the End

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Welcome back from the long Thanksgiving break, everyone! The rest of 2023 is simple: four solid weeks of uninterrupted trading, and then a final chunk (26, 27, 28, 29) of what I suspect will be very diminished holiday-style trading. So there’s not much of this not-my-favorite-year left to go.

In very 2023 fashion, the markets were all down hard last night and spent the past seven hours climbing back up. Equities are still down, but only a little, so as the /ES, which has inched down a very believable 0.13%.

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