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By Lawrence G. McMillan

Following an overnight push to new lows, the market attempted to put together a rally into the 2pm EST Fed minutes.  However, the market stalled and was unable to hold above the $SPX 1340, support-turned-resistance level.  The bears have once again taken control of this market pushing it down to Tuesday’s lows.  In the short-term, the market is very oversold and is due for a short-lived rally.  If the bulls can somehow hold Tuesday’s low, I expect we will see a strong wave of short covering come into the market.

Both the equity-only put-call ratios are holding their sell signals.  Today's price action will likely push the weighted put-call ratio into oversold...

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