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An early pop higher at Monday's quickly hit a peak before price action began to resume the falling trend that began in early February. By Thursday afternoon large cap stocks seemed destined for another week of losses, but a dovish comment by a non-voting Fed member Raphael Bostic was credited to have kick started a reverse in sentiment and rally that would continue through the close of Friday. Bostic shared his support for a 0.25% rate hike by the Fed in the upcoming FOMC meeting ...

Day three of the new month had a different feel but not before another morning sell off had the bulls on edge. We saw some buying of the morning decline but it was a fairly steady flat line until after 1 PM ET when the bulls took over following some Fed Talk. The gains were solid but the improvement in the charts may be the most important headline as we saw some positive outside reversal formations created. The question is whether we can trust it as the Fed Governors continue to make comments ...

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New month, new direction? Not yet. Stocks were quite choppy yesterday, bouncing between positive and negative and closing mixed but mostly negative without any sign of the recent consolidation concluding. The Dow managed to close with a small gain, and small caps were flat, but the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were down moderately. The dollar was down sharply again lifting the I-fund to a nice gain, taking the lead in the TSP funds to start March.

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Another day, another reversal. Tuesday's was the second negative reversal in a row after we saw a nice push higher off the morning lows, only to see the selling resume in the final 90 minutes of trading. The Dow lost 232-points and moderate gains turned into moderate losses by the close. Small caps also gave up a big gain but managed to stay flat. Bonds were up a bit as yields slid into the close.

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