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[PREMIUM] An Open Letter About Today’s Market Environment 12-8-15

December 8, 2015

Dear Readers,

We have to trade and invest in the market that we have in front of us, not the one that we want. Therefore we have to be able to approach the market from a completely unbiased perspective. We don’t care if the market doubles in price or if it gets cut in half. We want to try to take advantage of moves in both directions. This is America after all.

I know it’s not sexy, but since October 23rd, we have wanted to approach the major U.S. stock market averages from a more neutral perspective. This is the day that both the S&P500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average first got above what was then, and still is, a flat 200 day simple moving average. Securities in that sort of environment create headaches, for both the bulls and the bears. The reason is because

there is no trend. Sure enough, prices this week are exactly where they were on October 23rd. This should not be a surprise and in fact, should be expected. But what does stand out is the dramatic underperformance in

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