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ETF Stuffing

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Last Friday, November 7th, the market made a short-term bottomed and rallied the next three days (culminating in a record high for the Dow on both Tuesday and Wednesday) before it fell to pieces again on Thursday and, briefly, Friday morning. It’s possible that we’re going to go through the same circus again, with Friday’s low marking a short-term bottom. Let’s catch up with some ETFs to think it through.

The Dow ETF has cracked its uptrend only twice: the past two Fridays. I’ll breathe easier once we are clearly below a broken trendline instead of just teasing it.

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