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Thursday, February 18, 2010

gap, squeeze, rinse, repeat

hmmm, I wonder where stops were placed today?
the chart below illustrates the triangle breakout in today's SPY, complete with an achieved measured move.
Internals remained bullish today, and started accelerating higher into this breakout move.
As of today's close;
the DIA is 2.85% away from it's January highs,
SPY 3.67% from it's highs
IWM 2.91% from it's highs
Q's 3.84% from it's highs.

HOWEVER, there is THIS to be considered going into tomorrow:
"The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced that in light of continued improvement in financial market conditions it had unanimously approved several modifications to the terms of its discount window lending programs."

Here's the after-hours knee-jerk reaction, so far:
Right back down to today's lows. We're left to wonder how much of this reaction will be absorbed going into tomorrow. Should get interesting.

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