The markets ended positively but it was a rough road. They started out with a real nice pop to the upside based on strong futures and some pre-market economic news that traders reacted to positively.

The markets had a very strong session and a resilient one for the bulls, as the indices opened strong and went up all morning and sharply so, consolidated mid-day and then came on again at the end of the day and popped to new session and multi-month highs on both the Nasdaq 100 and the S&P 500, which finally broke out as well to confirm.

The indices certainly got the normal & expected post-FOMC announcement volatility today, but that resolved sharply lower in the later part of the session. However, the day started out with a move up at the start, a consolidation early on, and a bullish one, which led to further gains, as the Nasdaq 100 tagged 1950 in the morning, with the S&P 500 getting up to just under 1400.

The markets had a very mixed session that included a mid-day rally that was rather tedious and unimpressive from my viewpoint, with breadth poor and volume low.

The markets ended mixed on Monday. They were up in the morning, came down in the afternoon, and had a selloff late in the day to close near the afternoon lows and not far from the session lows.

The markets had a mixed session to end the week, but they did come on at the end of the day to close at the highs for the afternoon and in some cases the highs for the day.

The markets had a solid up-day today, although the last 45 minutes or so brought them back rather sharply, taking back a big chunk of the gains.

The markets recovered today with a strong start out of the gate. They gapped up, and then they pulled back and backed and filled for the first half hour, but then they came on strongly in a rally that took the indices all the way back to test Monday's highs on the Nasdaq 100, falling quite short on the S&P 500. But, they then rolled over rather sharply and gave back all the gains. However, they held near the early lows and then rallied steadily back. They pulled back in the last hour but came on at the close to end positive on the session.

The markets had a definitive down day today. They started out with a big gap down as futures were lower.

The markets ended mixed today after a choppy session, but they did have a nice 3-wave rally in late morning to early afternoon that took the indices back from negative territory.