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How About That?

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I truly enjoy writing (said the man unnecessarily who started getting published at age 15 and has written twenty-five books, including a 568-page novel, a full-length screenplay, and 50,000 blog posts). But I gotta tell ya, it’s getting increasingly difficult to write about this so-called “market”. There are only so many things a person can say about lifetime highs. “Wow. Goodness. Gosh, it’s even MORE over-valued! How about that?” It gets old.

In that vein, every single index chart looks identical: that is to say (i) a long ascending trendline anchored to April 7th; (ii) a failure; (iii) nearly daily higher closes, typically representing new lifetime highs; (iv) all the while getting closer and closer to the underside of the broken trendline, which now represents resistance.

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