Somebody slipped a Mickey Finn in the drinking fountain at the NYSE today. Seriously though, it was one of the calmest trading days in several weeks. The volume wasn’t through the roof, yet it wasn’t lacking a great deal either; just right. The futures were up strong overnight causing the major indices to gap up
Quarterly Update
One of my favorite ways to track the broader market is by the number of advancers and decliners in a given time period. Since the quarter closed yesterday I thought I’d share a chart that compares the advancers to decliners at the end of the quarter. The data goes back to 2000 and I’ve added