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Bears Negotiating a Truce as Tech Option Activity Heats Up

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We finally get a pull-back and the bears appear to be losing some momentum. Energy and Real Estate topped today’s performance, but it’s big cap technology that appears to have bullish option activity building beneath the surface. (QCOM, AMD, INTC, OXY, JNJ, GIS, AMZN)

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