Six day sell-offs in IBM have been rare this year (there was a five-day sell-off in early February and a pair of five-day corrections in late May).

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Indeed, there have been two notable dog-day sell-offs over the past 15 years.

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Previous short term, multi-day sell-offs in early October and early September were also excellent opportunities for traders to make quick work of short term oversold extremes.

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