For the week, when you look at the chart, you're up 1.4 percent. If you take a look at how the chart has gone, just on a regular bar chart, you can see the market's gone up, made that high just over the $3500 level, backed off, and now it's in a consolidation phase. While it's consolidating, it's doing a good job so far of keeping the higher lows and the higher highs in place, which is what makes up a bull market.
The Bollinger Bands, you see where the resistance is in the market, and they're fully back in play at this point in time, and momentum has stayed down.
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Over the past 35-years Ira Epstein has developed a reputation for providing clients with easy to use technology and teaching good old fashioned trading know-how. A number of our brokers have over 30-years trading experience. No matter how technology changes the methods of entering orders, there's no replacement for having "been there and done that before". It's the blend of services that brings things together.
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Ira began in the futures markets in 1969. Over the years he worked his way up, starting from the ground up as a "floor runner" culminating with his becoming a Floor Trader. In the mid 1970s Ira decided to make a career shift within the industry to develop both retail and commercial based clientele. His customer base grew to the point whereby in 1984 he founded "Ira Epstein & Company", a trading firm specializing in retail, commercial and self-directed discount futures trading. Along the way Ira became a leader in trading technology out of necessity, due to increased small lot trade volume. He was among the first to embrace the Internet, which as you know has dramatically changed both the way information is delivered and how trading takes place today.
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