Hhahhaahh.... You are sooooo effing wrong there. But whatever. Yes you can play semantics and find individual cases... but the tide moves all ships. You don't think astute players look at the ENTIRE market in the term of indexes?! And yes the indexes are a basket of a few. But who cares.... that's the game-board. Duh. Either way, to think this announcement today was some kind of surprise that all the sudden shocked the whales to where they wanted to get out, ... is laughable. Christ almighty....you have volumes to learn about this game. Your mindset of "option players, and stock players, and index players".... dude.... you have to learn to read them all if you wanna win. Why do you pigeon hole yourself like that. Is odd.
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Here's what happens---Markets that are already weak can react negatively to even minor news, or no news at all. The overall bias in this market was bearish and was for some time, not just today.
I don't buy that for 1 minute, and I would not sell it for 2. Were it not for the Omicron news on Friday, the markets would be in a much different place today. I SAW it in my head! I have been honing those skills! Omicron was a black swan, man.
Pfffhfht! The markets drift higher, up and up, until something acts as resistance. And boy, the Omicron was the algo Maginot line!