If you had bought the S&P/TSX composite index at the start of trading on Tuesday, in expectations of a tremendous rally,you'd be nursing some deep wounds by now.

Market Blog hates being the bearer of ugly numbers, but the benchmark index hit its intraday high at the start of trading, and has been performing abysmally ever since. Sure, it's still on track to post an amazing 8.8 per cent gain, rising 800 points. But if you look at things from the start of the day, rather than Friday's close, the rally looks instead like a big stock market bust.

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