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March has been a most unusual month
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15th trading day of March
SPX, 40% winning ratio with .07% average returns
R2K, 40% winning ratio with -.01% average returns
AGG, 45% winning ratio with -.13% average returns


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Friday
SPX, 27% winning ratio with -.27% average returns (last 3 closed down)
R2K, 27% winning ratio with -.29% average returns (last 3 closed down)
AGG, 55% winning ratio with -.09% ...

Stocks opened lower and investors were hunkering down expecting the worst before the FOMC policy statement was released. Upon the announcement, a triple digit loss in the Dow turned into a 227-point gain. After the announcement, Janet Yellen held a press conference and pushed all of the right buttons as stocks held onto those gains into the close.

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(everybody's in the race)

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14th trading day of March

• SPX, 45% winning ratio with -.01% average returns
• R2K, 50% winning ratio with -.17% average returns
• AGG, 36% winning ratio with .03% average returns

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Wednesday

• SPX, 73% winning ratio with .62% average returns
• R2K, 82% winning ratio with .81% average returns
• AGG, 45% winning ratio with .08% average returns

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Once again we saw a wildly mixed bag for stocks on Tuesday. The Dow lost a stiff 128-points (-0.7%) on the day but small caps and the Nasdaq were each up about 0.2%, and the other indices were somewhere in between the two. Oil was down again breaking to new lows and concerns about the recent strength in the dollar was likely the reason for the disparity in stocks.

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I'm going to make this a short rant tonight, thank you for allowing me to vent
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13th trading day of March (really good)

• SPX, 70% winning ratio with .32% average returns
  
• R2K, 70% winning ratio with .36% average returns
• AGG, 36% winning ratio with .08% average returns

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Wednesday (really bad)

• SPX, 18% winning ratio with -.23% average returns (Last 7 down)
  
• R2K,

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