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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Up In Smoke" data-source="post: 5255547" data-attributes="member: 79702"><p>The market isn't just simply the increase or loss of the major indices.  There are just as many people investing in a market decline as a market rise.  There are dozens of investing strategies and investors that are stuck in the buy and hold strategy are only playing 10 percent of the market.  The market isn't a measure of the economy, but a forward looking evaluation of the business landscape based on past results and trading trends.  P/E ratios, 100 day moving averages, support levels, options chains and hundreds of other technical data moves the market.</p></blockquote><p></p>