Whether up or down, it is very annoying.
Today's huge gap up has the S&P 500 sniffing the 200 day exponential moving average – hours after the market was poised to break down, hitting new lows for December. It is a market without memory from day to day and laughing off rules such as "markets that close on the lows, traditionally open poor the next morning."
Lately the market days have been characterized by strong opens, which are faded. BespokeInvest tweeted that the past 6 days the high of the day was in by 10: 30AM. Hence traders will observe if this pattern can change and Santa will be allowed in….
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