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Stocks close dramatically up

Posted on Oct 16, 2008 by CHESSNOID in Economy, Recession, housing market, stock market | 0 Comments

The market defied logic and made me wrong. In the last 90 minutes of the day, all the indexes reversed and shot up an average of 5%.  So the pattern is up Monday, down Tuesday, down Wednesday, and up Thursday. Today, the averages were down 4% and then kept crossing the break even line.  Personally, I thought it was going to collapse in the last hour.  I was way off.

8,979.26 +401.35 (4.68%)
1,717.71 +89.38 (5.49%)
946.43 +38.59 (4.25%)

Friday is looking up for now. The stock futures indicate another opening  rally tomorrow. It is options expiration as well and I would imagine since we rallied today there will be another big or even bigger rally tomorrow.  Then again I could be wrong and we could have another crazy 700 point down day.  This is why I am sitting out the current stock market.  My stomach would be twisting and turning as the numbers go up and down like a roller coaster.

The futures look like this:

Dow +33.00 +0.37% 8,999.00
NASDAQ +3.50 +0.26% 1,326.50
S&P +7.10 +0.75% 948.10

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