Quote from tortoise:
There was something strange about yesterday's close as well. We hit a new low, but breadth -- measured by adv-decl and up-dn volume on both NYSE/AMEX and NASDAQ -- was positive, while breadth measured in the same way on SP500 and NAS100 was positive until 3:45 before following the futures hard south.
In other words, to my eye, the broad market wasn't really participating in the futures-driven flush, with its accompanying arbed-driven dumping of the big stocks.
And then, fwiw, there's the VIX, which carved out a lower daily high for the third day in-a-row .... and just before the close.
I wonder, Volente ... might your squeeze start at 2:00 pm this afternoon?