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As with last week, I had a couple of fantastic back-to-back days. Each of them started off looking bad, then as the day wore on it just got better and better. I can only hope that, unlike last week, it doesn’t all get undone with some mega-rally on Friday.

The Dow Industrials slipped hundreds of points under the psychologically important 50,000 (or, if you’re Pam Bondi, 50,000 dollar) level. Happy as I am with this drop, nothing has changed with this index. The ascent has been smooth as silk, and the trio of exponential moving averages I’m using on all these charts is just about as steady as one could hope.

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