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Bifurcation Begins to Pull Markets Apart

While stock indices were down today the markets saw a 50/50 advance/decline line. The rotation game continues this time out of tech into financials. Bonds, gold, and silver all had their biggest declines in some time. Here’s what to expect the rest of the week…

Don Kaufman

Don Kaufman is options trader and educator. Former CBOE market maker, former Chief Derivatives Instructor at thinkorswim, and former Director of the Trader Group at TD Ameritrade. In 2015 he co-founded TheoTrade to teach traders how volatility, probability, and risk really work.

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