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The title of my Examiner.com article this week:   http://www.examiner.com/stock-market-in-san-francisco/brent-leonard -  was supposed to reflect the increasing Greed of stores to hold Holiday sales for most of the week, not just on Black Friday. My acronym - STUD, or Shop Till U Drop didn't intend to mean things like the Chicago shopping mall where a shopper shot his wife and killed himself at the mall!

 Last week set new highs for all indices yet again, despite the Friday selloff in stocks. Volume was down with the Holiday, but not in quality - the 2 handle in the ratio of NASDAQ to NYSE (speculative if high) broke to below 2 last week.Breadth was still positive - Advance/Declines and New highs/lows. Insider trading was not available (N/A) due to Thx, but gold rallied $50 today (Monday).

ETF monthly figures were out for Oct. with Stocks and Bond funds at new highs. Int'l stocks and Margin Interest fell. Here are the numbers:

Date>		########	11/21/2014
Indices:	DJIA	17828	17810
	NAZ	4791	4712
	SPX	2067	2063
WklyVolume (Bshs).	naz/ny….	5.5/2.9	8.4/3.9
Specul.Ratio hi=bullish		1.9	2.15
Sentiment:	put/call-CBOE	61	53
VIX>50-alltmlow=8.8		13.3	12.9
Advance/Dec-NYSE..		1768/1475	1949/1287
Weekly Net:		293	662
Cumulative:		164524	164231
Weekly	NYSE hi/low…	477/194	401/123
New Hi's/Low's	Nasdaq h/l	293/151	251/188
McClellan	Oscillator	13	23
McClellanSum	.+750/-1000	592	490
Newsletter	Inv.Intel -Bull:tues	56.5	56.4
Surveys	Bear:-5yrs	13.8	14.9
	AAII  -Bull :wed.	52.5	49.1
	Bear	20.8	23.8
COT:SPX w/w	large/small (net)k	N/A	6k/10k
COT:gold  comm.hedg	long-short.000	N/A	(71k)
CEOinsider	selling	40:1	24:1
off.&bd b/s.vs.	10% holder b/s	215:45	160:45
3-box rev	Bullish%-	74	74
US equity -ICI	Fund Flows	WeekDelay	(3.6B)
MMF flows	Change in $B	8.4B	9.8B
MargDebt- top (300M)	monthly	454B	OCT
ETF:mthlyEqty/	Int'l/Bond-$B	1168/424/294	OCT
2-yr Tsy Yield: Inflation		0.47%	0.51%
	InsiderTotal:		InsBuy:Fin.(50%)
			10%All Sales

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