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Your Tax Dollars At Work Through the Plunge Protection Team 10/14/22

The Federal Plunge Protection Team (PPT) swung into action early yesterday, triggering a marketwide short squeeze with spectacular results. But these interventions can only last so long. The market must then sink or swim on its own. 5 day cycle projections on the ES 24 hour futures chart of the S&P 500 says that this one will swim to a target of 3725, and then start sinking again.

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The problem is that buying spikes like this in an environment where there’s a shortage of liquidity that is constantly getting worse only serve to weaken the market, which must repeatedly lead to lower lows.

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