Stock Market Today: February 5th - 9th

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  1. T0rm3nted

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    Just saw the DOW down 1300 points, then like 5 minutes later down less than 800... wtf
     
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  2. Stockaholic

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    yep -6% ... got kinda close there :p
     
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  3. Steven_Burt

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    Man I thought about jumping into a lot of leveraged stuff thinking we would bounce into the close but chickened out cuz I'm not seeing any volume coming in. we might test lows again before the close.
     
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    Bonds having a great day on the equities selloff
     
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  5. OldFart

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    /ES bounced from 2635 to 2694....insane!!
     
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    you and me both...almost went long /ES ( should have ), but chickened out as well...oh well, there's always next time
     
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    When was the last time we were down this big on “no news”? It was always something like trouble from European banks and Brexit, today we pretty much had no major negative news :eek:
     
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    yep, that's why I think it's a BS down move.....no reason except to take advantage of panic selling...IMO
     
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  9. Steven_Burt

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    2nd wave gonna come i think. we failed at the ma20 on the 5m
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  10. OldFart

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    yep...having a little trouble at the BB midpoint line

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    I agree, lots of people either forgot what it's like to have a few down days in a row, or haven't ever experienced it! Big money is taking advantage of this and just getting themselves some budget deals. Wouldn't be surprised whenever this dip ends if it recovers fully within just a few weeks.
     
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    I guess "Market in turmoil" will be on CNBC tonight :p
     
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  13. Stockaholic

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    haha, the good 'ole cnbc special :p

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    Those who got into the market after the elections in 2016 definitely haven't experienced something like that :p
     
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    Used to be they would make up an excuse like Greece, Brexit, etc.....
    @StockJock-e mentioned once that the SPY cannot trade in a parabolic fashion...and he was right...lol...they sold the crap out of that move up.
     
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  16. StockJock-e

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    Well there we go!

    Havent seen a good flush like this in a long time!

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    that was fun
     
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    wow what did i wake up to? holy moly lol
     
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