Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

There’s an old expression that says “close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.”  So, we spent most of the day yesterday wondering whether the day’s 2336.45 lows were close enough to our long-held downside target of 2335.34.The tag was marred by premature reversals in oil and VIX.  Did the guys working the algos not get the message?  Or, were they just a little over-eager?  Admittedly, it’s tough to nail a precise value in an index as unwieldy as the S&P 500.  But, they went to all the trouble of engineering a backtest of a key Fib level.  You’d think they’d care…

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