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Similarly, the data was better than expected. After the last data release, the stock price fell sharply at the opening, and after a few minutes of downturn (at that time, the Nasdaq was less than 1% away from 10,000), the market began to rebound significantly. It rose from more than -3% to around 2% during the trading day. The movement was even smoother than this time.
How to predict such a trend, or are there any areas that can be referenced?
After the last data release, the trend of that day was a typical bearish trend exhausted, with some funds starting to rebound emotionally. In addition, at that time, the Nasdaq was already very close to breaking through the 10,000 points, and there would definitely be funds participating in the rebound market game. As a result, the market emerged in the midst of divergence.
The situation at the time was that the CPI data exceeded expectations, causing the market to plummet multiple times. Because once the data is very poor, a large amount of funds will instinctively participate in short selling and selling off, and the funds that kill the shorts or play reversal games will start.
This CPI data is considered a standard bullish event. Although the CPI still maintains an increase of over 7 points, it has shown a decline. Because before the data came out, the market had fully priced in the CPI, so even if there is a slight hope of bullishness, there is also the possibility of a short squeeze. And that's how it played out this week. Of course, the differences are still quite obvious, but you can see that half an hour before the market opened, there was a shift from divergence to convergence. This is also the best opportunity for the bears to exit, for example, I decisively shorted Tesla at the opening, luckily I ran fast, otherwise it would've been game over.
If you really want to delve into the issue of inflation, in fact, I don't think there has been any substantial improvement...

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