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Fractured Fairy Tale

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It was a good day today for the bullish precious/bearish equity crowd. It was diminished somewhat, of course, by the knee-jerk BTD mentality so deeply burned into the public mindset, as everything bottomed out close to the open and rallied for most of the session. Still, we ended the day crashing almost half a percent on equities. More important, we lifted to lifetime highs on gold. Here’s the NQ:

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