Apparently, no sooner had MSHY dropped and triggered the stop-loss then the shares reversed direction that same day and moved higher.

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The bright yellow, fully Sprint-ified UI theme is an acquired taste, the reversed direction of the QWERTY slide takes a little getting used to, and we found the soft buttons by the d-pad just a little hard to single out.

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You can see this all day long in the markets: whenever one of the currencies has a strong move in one direction, it is soon thereafter reversed.

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The other side of that pattern is that whatever is the direction of that move is usually reversed over the following few days, and the market goes back to focusing on whatever previously had its attention.

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"There was hope amongst a lot of people that the Obama administration would be more open to the medicinal use of marijuana and it initially made some announcements in that direction, but then it later reversed its policy, " he says.

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Logically, the direction of gas flowing through the pipeline should have been reversed to bring gas into the UK and help bring prices down.

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But now the process is being reversed - Greeks are moving in the other direction, away from urban financial hardship as the effect of the crisis deepens.

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