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The first week of February (week 5 of 52) closed up 3.03%% this is above the -.16% average week 5 returns, is the 4th best week over the past 21 years, and the 7th best week over the past 66 years.

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Contrasting week 6 against an up/down week 5 from 1950-2014

• We show the last 64 week 6s have an average 58% winning ratio and -.10% average returns
  
• For the 42 years when week 5 closed up, week 6 shows a 60% winning ratio with .05% average

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Jobs Report : 257,000 jobs added and 5.7% unemployment rate.

WSJ: http://www.wsj.com/articles/jobs-rep...5-7-1423229564

We went into Thursday having experienced a major sell-off just before Wednesday's close. Investors may have went into today's action a little uneasy, but we got a strong open. The bulls must have realized that the late Wednesday sell-off was a complete overreaction, so they went right back to work and pushed the indices higher, and in some cases, to new all-time highs.

The Dow gained 212-points on the day and the Wilshire ...