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> If in one week or one month Ukraine is still invaded and the markets are up, what does that mean?

It means that things have stabilized. Markets hate uncertainty. If the Russians stay in Ukraine, that's bad news for sure, but it means things have stopped changing.

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How about today? What changed between the morning and the afternoon that the market went up from ~4100 to ~4300?

Knee jerk reactions are common in the stock market. "Maybe it won't be as bad as we thought it would be 24 hours ago"

It’s not like every person institution and algorithm sells at the same time lol. Also, cascading effects.

Markets hate instability, and any price takes time to consolidate. It might never “consolidate”during high volatility.

dont see this as up as down but rather as volatility because yep it’s a volatile time

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