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Oceans Rise, Empires Fall

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I worked pretty late last night, and I couldn’t help but take a glance at the /ES screen every few minutes. I had ended the day very, very, very short, and worry started to cloud my mind.

The market had been battered down to the lows of last Friday, which at the time was an important short-term bottom, and I wondered to myself if I was setting myself up for catastrophe. The market already seemed to be going into “healing” mode, and who knows what shocker of a headline I might wake up to in the morning. When I turned my monitors off, the /ES looked like this:

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