Window Dressing Robot buyers. Yesterday I said either the market might sell off on end of quarter profit taking (locking in performance gains)

OR rally to mark up positions and performance (window dressing). I was not sure of which. Now we know; Robots (AI-artificial intelligence) have been taught the art of window dressing. OMG, what else have they learned?

All the major market averages jumped to the plus side today. S&P 500, NASDAQ Comp, DOW, etc all spent the morning deciding what to do. And then the decision was made. Mark them up. Could it also be that there was noise coming from Washington that the done, finished, you own it, put it away forever Healthcare bill may be back? One wonders. In any event, it was an across the board rally today after 8 days in a row down.

So, as you know, we do focus on fintech via the KBW NASDAQ fintech index which goes by the alias

KFTX

. It has 50 fintech stocks and that index closed today at 1127.62, up

7.40

points or

+0.66%

. I will lead you through the list to find the stocks in that index that moved 2 points and/or 3% today. Oh boy, here we go.

FDC

+.67 (15.66) +4.47%

FDS

-9.98 (164.57) -5.72%

INFO

+1.29 (41.41) +3.22%

LC

+.19 (5.45) +3.61%

TREE

+4.45 (124.15) +3.72%

Advance decline showed 39 stocks up, 10 down and 1 unchanged.

So, now after a bounce on the second day of the week just before the 1st quarter ends, what will the last 3 days bring? Still leaning bearish and stressing caution. Lighten up if you're long. Bullishness runs rampant, consumers are really pushing the consumer confidence index to the moon (just not at the empty malls) and the sky is blue. Too much "no problem" giddiness out there. Remember, people aren't gloomy at market tops. Caution and sleep tight.