Was it priced in at $19.50? $19.49? $19.25? $27.00?
Long-term interest rates flirted with 5% yesterday and it was a really, really good time to take profits. I went to cash in the morning and only purchased a little CEF later in the day.
There are evening-starrish patterns, bearish engulfings and chart breakdowns all over the place. The only thing that's suspect is that the declines were on relatively low volume.
That may have something to do with the Holy Days coming up next week.
At any rate, we are looking at higher interest rates going forward, a deflating of the housing bubble (it contributed about $2 billion in consumer spending in the last couple of years) or a popping and a few other problems that anyone that reads the news is familiar with.
There are some macro liquidity issues regarding Foreign Central Banks that are a bit disconcerting too. But that's a work in progress.