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PPD Finally Breaks Out

April 16, 2009 at 08:25 PM
Chip Anderson
by Chip Anderson,
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We discussed PPD and its long struggle with the 50-day MA in a previous post.  Looks like things have finally changed!  Should be fun to watch during the next couple of days.

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