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Time for me to vent………..as if you didn’t get enough of that already. I’ll start off with this one simple chart of the /ES today, because I’m really, really, really sick of this crap. An absolute explosion of buying based on absolutely no new information at all, blowing all losses away and ripping stocks into highs (with a VIX at a 16-handle, for God’s sake).

Feeling frustrated? Bored? It isn’t you. It’s the market. Check out the QQQ. It has been stuck in a pint-sized range for ten solid trading days. Maddening, isn’t it?

Well, it couldn’t happen to a nicer group of guys. The swaggering, swine-like bulls came into this week, certain that S&P 500 was heading to 6,000 without a downtick in sight, and things short-circuited. Here are the small cap futures, which capture the sudden shift succinctly:
