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vanbogle59 wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:27 am
Raycpact wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:26 am
IowaFarmWife wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:17 am
vanbogle59 wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:16 am
IowaFarmWife wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:37 am

Astrology? I've never thought of that before. I'm a Libra, so that means I need to rebalance right now, correct? Or maybe go 50/50? :happy :mrgreen:
I'm a Pisces. My portfolio is underwater.
LOL, we've got a new system to time the market! I love it!
you think you have problems, I'm a Gemini.
You should post that on the soaring thread, too.
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Candor wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:40 am
Nicolas wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:36 am
Candor wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:28 am
IowaFarmWife wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:17 am
vanbogle59 wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:16 am


I'm a Pisces. My portfolio is underwater.
LOL, we've got a new system to time the market! I love it!
I just did a Google search for "investing based on astrology" and there are 10 pages. :moneybag
There’s always the Super Bowl predictor, and it’s coming up. They say it’s never wrong. :D
Lots of great options out there. I personally have all my chips on the Inverse Forester Correlation.
inverse Forester actually has a good track record.... Problem is his latest prediction is that we bounce back from this correction soon, so it looks like a full fledged crash is coming.
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Californiastate wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:02 am I agree with Cramer's opinion this morning. The market needs a capitulation before it returns to it's advance. I'm curious to see how today closes. Will the smart money be content and stay in the market over the weekend? Will it divest late in the session to avoid bad news over the weekend?
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HomerJ wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:25 am
huzaing wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:21 am
HomerJ wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:32 am
huzaing wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 5:40 am Plus, Tom Lee is very optimistic for this year.
Who is Tom Lee?

The lead singer for Rush?

I know a guy named Ed Baker who is pessimistic for this year. Should that make a difference?
Yes should make a difference depending on if they are credible and considered reliable by other respected folks.
So who is Tom Lee? Why is Tom Lee credible? I respect very few people in finance or economics, so I doubt he has any references I would trust, but which "respected" folks think Tom Lee can predict the future?
I didn't make that claim about him particularly.

You know Ritholtz folks like Michael Batnick, Josh Brown, etc? They have a podcast and had him as a guest. That probably means that he's at least not a total charlatan. But I definitely don't think he has the ability to predict anything. So I think your approach is actually better. But personally, it just gives me some hope that the market is not going to crash tomorrow.
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RubyTuesday wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:46 am
Californiastate wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:02 am I agree with Cramer's opinion this morning. The market needs a capitulation before it returns to it's advance. I'm curious to see how today closes. Will the smart money be content and stay in the market over the weekend? Will it divest late in the session to avoid bad news over the weekend?
Cramer is (at best) a best contraindicator for investment decisions. Not really, he has no impact on them.
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Californiastate wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:49 am
RubyTuesday wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:46 am
Californiastate wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:02 am I agree with Cramer's opinion this morning. The market needs a capitulation before it returns to it's advance. I'm curious to see how today closes. Will the smart money be content and stay in the market over the weekend? Will it divest late in the session to avoid bad news over the weekend?
Cramer is (at best) a best contraindicator for investment decisions. Not really, he has no impact on them.
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HomerJ wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:43 am
Candor wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:40 am
Nicolas wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:36 am
Candor wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:28 am
IowaFarmWife wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:17 am

LOL, we've got a new system to time the market! I love it!
I just did a Google search for "investing based on astrology" and there are 10 pages. :moneybag
There’s always the Super Bowl predictor, and it’s coming up. They say it’s never wrong. :D
Lots of great options out there. I personally have all my chips on the Inverse Forester Correlation.
inverse Forester actually has a good track record.... Problem is his latest prediction is that we bounce back from this correction soon, so it looks like a full fledged crash is coming.
No problem, I am a long-term investor and he predicts a bounce back followed by a historic crash. Maybe if I time it correctly I can even participate in both. :wink:
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Afternoon decline in progress...
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HomerJ wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:26 am
So two strikes against him. Got a prediction wrong, and even worse, bothered to make a prediction about bitcoin.
LOL, can't disagree with that.
Sometimes I do wonder if they know inside that they can't predict and just do it anyway because that's what people want to hear - any type of prediction.
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lostdog wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:54 am Afternoon decline in progress...
Bear has been winning the afternoon battle all week long :oops:
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lostdog wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:54 am Afternoon decline in progress...
jarjarM wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 12:03 pm
Bear has been winning the afternoon battle all week long :oops:
Doesn't seem to want to be happening today. Still almost 1% up

Let's see how this comment ages by day end, lol
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Candor wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:13 am
djm2001 wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:54 am
HomerJ wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:36 am
lostdog wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 7:08 am It's fun watching bogleheads lose their minds with dry powder, market timing, going all in at a certain number, market predictions, the end of the world, 50% drop that will last 10 years or more, etc...

Still waiting to hit the 5% rebalancing band.

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Small Caps bleeding continues
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stocknoob4111 wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 12:14 pm Small Caps bleeding continues
:?:

Vanguard's small cap index fund (VB) is up 0.20% today.
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HomerJ wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:37 am
Triple digit golfer wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:35 am
HomerJ wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:32 am
huzaing wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 5:40 am Plus, Tom Lee is very optimistic for this year.
Who is Tom Lee?

The lead singer for Rush?

I know a guy named Ed Baker who is pessimistic for this year. Should that make a difference?
Motley Crue.
LOL... I was thinking of Geddy Lee
We knew who you meant. If you're old enough to appreciate Rush, you're old enough to have the occasional brain f*%^. 8-)
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Gonna need two windows open for free fall and soar on the same day. maybe a third window with Geddy Lee singing "Take Off to the Great White North"
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SilverSmurfer wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:40 am
vanbogle59 wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:27 am
Raycpact wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:26 am
IowaFarmWife wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:17 am
vanbogle59 wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:16 am

I'm a Pisces. My portfolio is underwater.
LOL, we've got a new system to time the market! I love it!
you think you have problems, I'm a Gemini.
You should post that on the soaring thread, too.
We need a Leo for the roaring thread! ;)
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Astrology is strong in this thread. :P
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Time to bump this one up for when we turn red in the next half hour
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IowaFarmWife wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:17 am
vanbogle59 wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:16 am
IowaFarmWife wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:37 am
HomerJ wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:36 am
lostdog wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 7:08 am It's fun watching bogleheads lose their minds with dry powder, market timing, going all in at a certain number, market predictions, the end of the world, 50% drop that will last 10 years or more, etc...

Still waiting to hit the 5% rebalancing band.

:beer 🍺
I know, right? This thread may indeed need to be closed. This day-to-day watching has become a bad habit, and it has let new posters think that Bogleheads actually endorses market-timing, technical analysis, astrology, and "gut feelings" when investing.
Astrology? I've never thought of that before. I'm a Libra, so that means I need to rebalance right now, correct? Or maybe go 50/50? :happy :mrgreen:
I'm a Pisces. My portfolio is underwater.
LOL, we've got a new system to time the market! I love it!
I'm a Taurus, so I should probably stick to the other thread.

Ursa Major isn't a sign, so astrology can't help us with bear markets.
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atdharris wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:21 pm Time to bump this one up for when we turn red in the next half hour
Same rinse and repeat
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burritoLover wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:30 pm This volatility just seem artificially induced - I imagine a bunch of complex trading algos driving the volatility getting some institution/professionals rich. Is that an insane idea?
I think it's unlikely, but not insane: our brains are wired to invent narratives like that for complex phenomena.
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This type of volatility is new to me. I’m used to big up or down days, one after the other. But this month, it’s like up 1/2 the day than down and up again. Slow bleed type.

I am used to stock futures predicting the type of day we have most of the time. Now when I look I don’t even care because it’s probably wrong. This is new in my investing career.
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am wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:39 pm This type of volatility is new to me. I’m used to big up or down days, one after the other. But this month, it’s like up 1/2 the day than down and up again. Slow bleed type.

I am used to stock futures predicting the type of day we have most of the time. Now when I look I don’t even care because it’s probably wrong. This is new in my investing career.
This is completely normal behavior. Anyone who has long-term objectives will remember 2012, 2016, and 2018. This is one such moment.

It always feels like the end of the world, but it isn't. If markets crashed, there would be no rate hike. Markets close higher from here by EOY.
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princetontiger wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:44 pm
am wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:39 pm This type of volatility is new to me. I’m used to big up or down days, one after the other. But this month, it’s like up 1/2 the day than down and up again. Slow bleed type.

I am used to stock futures predicting the type of day we have most of the time. Now when I look I don’t even care because it’s probably wrong. This is new in my investing career.
This is completely normal behavior. Anyone who has long-term objectives will remember 2012, 2016, and 2018. This is one such moment.

It always feels like the end of the world, but it isn't. If markets crashed, there would be no rate hike. Markets close higher from here by EOY.
I agree with what your saying, normal behavior. Just different. The last few years were so much fun and now this (except mar 2020). :D

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HomerJ wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 7:53 pm
Vtsax100 wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 4:01 pm If it goes to 2500 I will sell everything I own to buy vtsax.
What if it goes to 2600 then starts heading back up?

What about 2700?

What about 2800?
Then I will do nothing.
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am wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:39 pm This type of volatility is new to me. I’m used to big up or down days, one after the other. But this month, it’s like up 1/2 the day than down and up again. Slow bleed type.

I am used to stock futures predicting the type of day we have most of the time. Now when I look I don’t even care because it’s probably wrong. This is new in my investing career.
Ignore stock futures.
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I would expect bears are not going into the weekend short, i would expect the ol end of day covering.
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Yup, the big covering in progress.
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Sorry folks, my regular monthly purchase happens today so of course the market is up. Don't worry though - it'll probably go right back to falling on Monday!
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brama wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 2:58 pm Sorry folks, my regular monthly purchase happens today so of course the market is up. Don't worry though - it'll probably go right back to falling on Monday!
That always seemed to happen when we were working, like literally 90% of the time. And we were making rather substantial deferred monthly contributions (over 5,000 a month total from 2 people). Finally, we started having it go into a money market account when it went in as a deposit and we would move it into the market at a time of our choosing. It required us to follow the market a bit, but really think it worked out better. At least we felt a little in control. Of course, when you're retired it's a moot point.
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just move back to the 200 DMA exactly, classic back test? We will see if it pierces through the 200 DMA or not next week. If not then a failed test is considered bad.
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stocknoob4111 wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:28 pm just move back to the 200 DMA exactly, classic back test? We will see if it pierces through the 200 DMA or not next week. If not then a failed test is considered bad.
Yes, that seems likely. SPX to 4600? This bear market is probably not finished. But then again, the market seldom behaves as I expect.
We're incidentally back to where we were last friday.
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I guess you all haven't seen that the S&P 500 was up 2.43% today.

Today's not the day to post in this thread. :D
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willthrill81 wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:19 pm I guess you all haven't seen that the S&P 500 was up 2.43% today.

Today's not the day to post in this thread. :D
Of course it's up when I had some reallocations to make. Maybe next week...
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am wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:39 pm This type of volatility is new to me. I’m used to big up or down days, one after the other. But this month, it’s like up 1/2 the day than down and up again. Slow bleed type.

I am used to stock futures predicting the type of day we have most of the time. Now when I look I don’t even care because it’s probably wrong. This is new in my investing career.
This is not normal behavior. See this chart for how rare these types of moves 5 days in a row are. And notice these happen in bear markets.

https://twitter.com/bespokeinvest/statu ... 6133?s=21
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Gufomel wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 8:08 am
HanSolo wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 7:33 am
Gufomel wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 7:20 am Let me get this straight, the CEO of a major corporation that has a PE ratio of 467 (!!!) thinks that rising discount rates should not impact the valuation of his company?
He was referring to impact on the company's operations.

He might have a point. In the long run, the results produced by the company might have more influence on the shareholder value than the various ups and downs in interest rates along the way. It's possible...
I disagree regarding what he is referring to. His comments are specifically referring to the sell-off in stocks.

Sure, the rising rates may not have an impact on his company’s operations, but it absolutely has an impact on today’s valuation of his company’s future operations. That’s where people continually go wrong in understanding the stock market, even highly intelligent CEOs.
In the piece you quoted, the company's stock price was mentioned, and the company's ability to execute was also mentioned, so on that point, you're partially right.

But there's no evidence that the CEO doesn't understand the stock market. His salient points were (a) the changes in interest rates won't affect his company's ability to execute, and (b) the short-term downtrend in the stock prices of companies like his is arguably overdone, due to (a).

He's probably right.
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000 wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 11:31 pm
HanSolo wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 11:15 pm
000 wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 3:26 pm With LTT up significantly more than stocks are down we may be seeing newly created money buying stocks from smart money and smart money buying bonds. If true this drop is nowhere near over.
If that's the case, I'm glad I topped up my bond funds on Wednesday (including LTT). Am I the smart money?
Not if futures hold :twisted:
Change "not" to "even". All of my stock and bond funds were up on the day. :beer
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Pawpatrol wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 5:34 pm This is not normal behavior. See this chart for how rare these types of moves 5 days in a row are. And notice these happen in bear markets.

https://twitter.com/bespokeinvest/statu ... 6133?s=21
This is interesting info- not actionable in and of itself but hard not to consider quite bearish given other times this event has happened...
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bigbadbuff wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 9:46 am
Pawpatrol wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 5:34 pm This is not normal behavior. See this chart for how rare these types of moves 5 days in a row are. And notice these happen in bear markets.

https://twitter.com/bespokeinvest/statu ... 6133?s=21
This is interesting info- not actionable in and of itself but hard not to consider quite bearish given other times this event has happened...
It isn't that far off from baseball where they keep/make all kinds of weird stats that have no actual use *shrug*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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Did something happen with the stock market this week? I've been away since Monday, and when I checked my Vanguard account this morning it was the same as the day I left.
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SilverSmurfer wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 10:06 am
bigbadbuff wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 9:46 am
Pawpatrol wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 5:34 pm This is not normal behavior. See this chart for how rare these types of moves 5 days in a row are. And notice these happen in bear markets.

https://twitter.com/bespokeinvest/statu ... 6133?s=21
This is interesting info- not actionable in and of itself but hard not to consider quite bearish given other times this event has happened...
It isn't that far off from baseball where they keep/make all kinds of weird stats that have no actual use *shrug*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
It is a fair critique that if you search for anything you will find meaningless correlations. Multiple days in a row of significant volatility though is directly related to other known established correlations with market returns like the VIX for example. This is not actionable in of itself but it is one data point that when contextualized with other similar data points seems important.

We can still go up forever and no one knows anything but i use these signals to re-evaluate my need, ability and willingness to accept risk.
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dwickenh wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 8:06 am
lostdog wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 7:08 am It's fun watching bogleheads lose their minds with dry powder, market timing, going all in at a certain number, market predictions, the end of the world, 50% drop that will last 10 years or more, etc...

Still waiting to hit the 5% rebalancing band.

:beer 🍺
+1, I'm waiting too but getting very close now.
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Re: U.S. stocks in free fall

Post by gmaynardkrebs »

steve roy wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 3:14 pm
dwickenh wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 8:06 am
lostdog wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 7:08 am It's fun watching bogleheads lose their minds with dry powder, market timing, going all in at a certain number, market predictions, the end of the world, 50% drop that will last 10 years or more, etc...

Still waiting to hit the 5% rebalancing band.

:beer 🍺
+1, I'm waiting too but getting very close now.
Beware experts and Top Dogs saying "This time it's diferent."
What are they saying is different this time?
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fetch5482
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Re: U.S. stocks in free fall

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Someone had to eventually bump this up...so here I am!
Pre-market S&P500 down 0.4%
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nigel_ht
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Re: U.S. stocks in free fall

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gmaynardkrebs wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 3:26 pm
steve roy wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 3:14 pm
dwickenh wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 8:06 am
lostdog wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 7:08 am It's fun watching bogleheads lose their minds with dry powder, market timing, going all in at a certain number, market predictions, the end of the world, 50% drop that will last 10 years or more, etc...

Still waiting to hit the 5% rebalancing band.

:beer 🍺
+1, I'm waiting too but getting very close now.
Beware experts and Top Dogs saying "This time it's diferent."
What are they saying is different this time?
They are saying this time is the same…but which same? 1927 or 1929?
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TheTimeLord
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Re: U.S. stocks in free fall

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gas_balloon wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 7:34 am Someone had to eventually bump this up...so here I am!
Pre-market S&P500 down 0.4%
Nasdaq 100 is currently trading positive.
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Re: U.S. stocks in free fall

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Looks like the Nasdaq is jumping. Big week of earnings again for tech - FB/Google tomorrow, AMZN on Wednesday
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Re: U.S. stocks in free fall

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Warming this up for the late session plunge!
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