The indices ended narrowly mixed, although the session was very different in the morning. They had a sharp move off the get-go that faded quickly and retested the lows successfully.

The indices had a very strong snapback session from a strongly oversold condition, but the day did start out with a move to the downside early on.

It was an extremely ugly down-day, adding to the now 3-day downtrend, and the indices closed at the lows for they day going away.

The markets experienced a definitive down-day follow-through session, very similar to yesterday's session. The indices once again gapped down, once again bounced in the morning, consolidated and then went lower and hit the session lows around mid-day.

The indexes managed to get together a late afternoon push and move into the plus column, but overall it was a pretty unimpressive session.

The indices ended the week on an upbeat note with the Nasdaq 100 near unchanged. But the session was remarkably similar to yesterday when they opened very strong on a gap-up, had an early morning surge and then pretty much consolidated for the rest of the day. That’s what occurred today, with a bit more of a downward bias from the session highs.

The indexes had an extremely strong session, particularly late in the afternoon after the FOMC minutes were released. The initial reaction to that was negative, but they quickly reversed and exploded strongly higher all afternoon, closing at the highs for the day going away.

The market got a move up right at the get-go that took the indices to near the session highs within the first hour.

The stock market certainly had a down and dirty decisive negative session today, but there were some early surprises.

The stock market closed down on the day and had a definitive afternoon decline. The indices closed right at key support, and the next day or two may be critical to the short-term direction of the market. If they do not hold these levels, we could see a much deeper retest of lower levels.