jd, I like you, but please don't post PP* stuff to me, as I don't like that convenient excuse for the market not doing what folks think it ought to be doing.
For example, yesterday after the AM lows we flagged out most of the day in a tight trading range. Once we got to the main falling resistance line, it didn't take much to get the indices up and get the shorts to scramble. It doesn't have to be a big conspiracy. Heck, I think I posted in the AM that was what I anticipated would happen. Am I PP*?
Heck, if I had the power, I'd buy futures at that time for easy bucks. It's not some big scheme to hold the indices up as much as it's getting chart chasers to run after something to fatten your pockets. That's just good old enterprising profiteering.
If people think the Govt. had a program yesterday to keep the COMP above 1292 at all costs when we had a low 2-weeks ago at 1262, they're also probably concerned aliens are abducting people from their homes in order to perform anal probes.
No disrespect intended, jd. I just prefer not to lose focus with all the conspiracy stuff.
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