Fair enough. One has to admire just how manipulated this thing is. There is an answer for every down candle. It immediately gets bought right back up. This is the hardest market to bring down in the history of the market.
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%% Good + sensible. COULD have easily gone down FRI\just like Thur\to 200dma; in hindsight, did not take out 50dma so, still going UP. Good technicals.; but even in hindsight\ biggest red candle in SPY, past 6 months. QQQ did dip below 50dma, but that's ''just hindsight '', good hindsight LOL. Bear hounds, not just Hollywood HYPE LOL\ can tell within 50 feet which way[trail] a bear is going. HOW?? Thier nose is that good [source NRA American Hunter magazine]
Exactly. Not sure why people try to make something so simple much more complex than it needs to be. To put it even simpler... chances are if something goes different than you expected, your expectations were wrong. A lot of egos can't handle this.
%% True + simple; but some had the ''V '' pointing up, in hindsight . SPY could have run down thru 50dma , common pattern in up/trending bull markets. QQQ did . Buyers maybe had thier coffee ; but op wanted it explained like a retriever . A bear dog nose + pack can tell in 50 feet , which way the bear is running [Source NRA American Hunter magazine]
It sounds like you're somehow emotionally involved with the market. Why would you be trying or wanting to "bring down" the market? Whenever I've heard anyone complain about manipulation, invariably the market has been going against that person's positions. We are traders. We know there is opportunity to profit in any market - up, down, or flat.