Last week BTFD failed for the Nasdaq [4]and that class of talking-heads that we like to call asset-gatherers promulgated that there was no need to worry... this is a small segment of the market dragging down a high-beta index, rotate to bigger caps. The S&P has not failed the BTFD brigade since QE4EVA began... until today. For the first time, the S&P 500 cash index was unable to make a new high after bouncing off the 50DMA (in fact making a new cycle low)... now what?
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Remember, "you buy the fucking dip... because if you don't, you're a fucking idiot"
Unless it's different this time...
"I think it's very likely that we're seeing, in the next 12 months, an '87-type of crash," [6]warns a somewhat excited sounding Marc Faber, adding that he thinks "it will be worse."


