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I don't want to read too much into this week's Tracker charts as stock allocations didn't shift enough to try and draw any major conclusions, but on a more subtle level the Top 50 pulled back a bit, while the Total Tracker charts show the herd took a more bullish position in spite of some worrisome market movements (dollar, commodities, oil, treasuries).




As you can see, the Top 50 backed off their stock allocations ...

Flash Crash
Can it happen again, and what should I do if it does?

It was May 6th 2010, I was at work checking on a few charts, when it happened. At first I thought something was wrong with the charting service, but then I realized this wasn't a mistake, we were having a crash of electronic proportions...

To say I was in a state of disbelief would have been an understatement, but looking back the saving grace was there wasn't anything you and I could have done ...

The dollar may lead the way

Stocks opened higher last week after the news of bin Laden’s death, but the emotional rally quickly failed and the major indices pulled back for most of the week.

The good news is the jobs report came in a little better than expected and the market rallied on Friday.

For the TSP, the C-fund lost 1.68 for the week, while the S-fund and the I-fund lost 2.8%. Bonds (F-fund) gained 0.58%, and the G-fund was up 0.05%.

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It could've been worse. The market latched on to today's jobs report and opted to set a very positive tone in what was an oversold market. But today's reversal is going to have many traders second guessing their market expectations moving forward as the market closed well off its highs of the day.

So nonfarm payrolls for April jumped 244,000, while private payrolls were up 268,000. Both were much higher than economists expected. But the unemployment rate rose to 9.0%, which was not ...

Dollar rallies - It was a bad day for stocks and most of the negative were triggered by a big rally in the dollar. The Dow lost 139-points on the day with much of damage coming during late afternoon trading...

Market Commentary for 5/06/11

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