It was an extremely negative session and close for the market indices today.

The market ended with a solid gain for the session, but it disappointed with a last half-hour sell-off that took back a chunk of the gains.

The market was mixed at the close, but the indices certainly disappointed with a late afternoon sell-off, taking the indices from the plus column into the negative column, except for the Nasdaq 100.

It was an extremely negative way to start the week, but that's been customary in this bear market.  The indices started with big gaps down, tried to rally early on but didn't last long, and then rolled over and sold off steadily until early afternoon when they tried another rally that lacked thrust and rolled over in the last hour to close near the lows for the day.

The indices had a very volatile session, swinging back and forth at least 12 times, failing on several occasions to breakout to the upside, but also holding early morning support lows for most of the day.

The markets had a strong slide after a morning rally that sent them to the lows of the day near the close, definitely a bad day for the bulls.

The markets were quite volatile swinging down and then back up again and getting hit at the end of the day to close mostly lower on the session.

The markets ended with a huge session, and it was turnaround Tuesday indeed today.

The indices started off the week with a very ugly session.

The markets had some interesting volatility to end the week on options expiration day.