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It was Options Expiration day today and the market managed to stem the recent selling pressure by chopping above and below the neutral throughout the trading session. It ultimately closed mixed with the Nasdaq posting a loss of 0.6%, the DOW a 0.22% gain and the S&P 500 down a modest 0.04%.



There was one report released today and that was Leading Indicators.

The report showed that economic data is showing fairly strong signs ...

11/18/11

Stocks sold-off again yesterday as Spain's 10-year bond yield is now flirting with joining the 7% club. The Dow did close nearly 100-points off of the low, but was still down 135-points on the day.



For the TSP, the C-fund lost 1.68% yesterday, the S-fund fell 1.71%, the I-fund dropped 0.96%, and the F-fund ...

TSP Talk Sentiment Survey results for the week of 11/21/11- 11/25/11

Sell: The TSP Talk Sentiment Survey came in at 49% bulls, 39% bears, for a bulls to bears ratio of 1.26 to 1. That is a sell signal in a bear market which means the system will remain 100% G Fund for the week of 11/21/11 - 11/25/11.

Bear market rules are in affect 8/22/11:

See latest survey results

To discuss or comment on the Sentiment Survey, go to Sentiment Survey Talk
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Well, the Seven Sentinels official sell signal yesterday certainly seems a bit prophetic at the moment, but this market could be trying to fake out the bears again, so I'm not ready to fully embrace this sell signal. Although with only a 20% exposure to the market I'm not taking a whole lot of risk anyway.

The market spent most of the morning session chopping around the neutral line (mostly lower) until about noon time EST, and then the selling pressure kicked in and took the major ...