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It was an exceptional September, as foretold in this column ('Exceptional circumstances', ic, 10 September). For only the second time in 18 years, the markets rose during both August and September. What is more, all of the major stock markets gave repeat swing-chart buy signals on 28-29 September. Those repeat signals were the first such signals after the new uptrend was born on 26 August - at 4434 in the case of the FTSE. The fact that the repeat buy signal was given at an appreciably higher level than the original signal is a very constructive sign. Usually, the first repeat buy

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