 Here on this Tuesday, February the 22nd, Tf&N 11 o'clock, Tike Financial News Network, Market Update, and here we go, the Dow is trading down 286, 286 after an attempt at a rally smashed by Home Depot's sliding sharply. That really just did it with Boeing. It just canceled out any positivity. The S&P actually had gone positive, but the Dow could not do that. This is the dreaded H patent that I've been talking about. I don't like this at all. Coming into the 233 o'clock timeframe, if the VIX index, which is trading at 20.34, starts to get into the 31 area, or high 32.05 was the high today. Let me just double check if it's still where it is right now. 32.04 was the high, which is the same as it was just five, six sessions ago. If it can break above that, wow, then you got to watch out for that last hour. This is where the rolling over of the dreaded H by lowercase H patent starts to accelerate towards that left side low. So this is the day you want to see some kind of a bounce, just at least a harbinger of internal strength, still residual strength, let's say, but we haven't seen it yet. We did see it in the S&P a little bit. It's down 20 at 43.28, also making that H formation, but the QQQ showed strength. It's now failing. It's down $1.14, 340.37. It ran all the way to 344, and that's the fear that I've got, that buyers just can't hold anything because sellers come in and they just predominate, and this H patent starts an acceleration down towards 334.15, the left side low of the 24th. IWM is also lagging, and what's really important here is that gold is holding pretty well. When you think about the move that it's had, it's just unchanged at 18.99. I think it's in play, but it hasn't broken out. It'll break out as soon as it gets, if it does, it gets to the 19.20. That's a big breakout in the monthly chart. So far it's in a big consolidation, rectangle formation at the upper end in play because the fear factor is gold. Gold is, for me, the icon of fear. So let's just go to this crude oil. Crude oil is acting quite well here, although I think it's just on a short-term basis. It could have a little bit of a pullback. It's at $81.95. Oh, you could pull back to the 87, maybe even 85 area, but that weekly chart says, wow, this is in play for geopolitical reasons. And if you're looking at the TLT, wow, it's trying to rally and it bonds down 30 cents a year. I'm moving higher. Have a great day. Stay tuned for Larry Pizzeranto and great programming for the rest of the The reality is that navigating financial markets