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Having excitedly watching the Weekend Dow plunge to a loss of over six hundred points, it was a real bummer to see that, once the market was actually open, the loss was about one-third that amount. That is precisely what I was referring to when I wrote on my post early this morning that, “Weekend IG is often a very, very crude proxy of what actually happens when the futures markets open on Sunday evening“. Q.E.D.
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(more…)Instead of doing a video of all twenty ETFs in my main list, I just wanted to write some remarks on some specific ones this weekend.
Gold’s ascent sputtered out in April, and we double-topped recently. It could have a long way to sink to digest all those gais.
In many instances, the activities of the past few years of the major indexes can be described with a couple of simple facts:
Here are four examples of this, with the dashed red line anchored to the peak last week of the index (as stated, lower than the lifetime high from months earlier):
