From Jeff Clark in Growth Stock Wire:
Everything is in place now.
For the past couple months, I've been harping about the potential for a bearish move in the market. Sentiment indicators, summation indexes, bullish percent indexes… all the technical indicators are warning of a swift and severe correction. The market doesn't care. It just keeps marching higher.
The high-frequency trading desks, the algorithmic computer programs, and the Bernanke printing press have overpowered the technical indicators and – like Atlas propping the world up on his shoulders – kept a persistent bullish bid beneath the market. The new high list keeps growing. Expensive stocks keep getting more expensive.
Every day I warn investors of the potential risks in the market. And every day I start the morning by washing the egg off my face. Why worry about risks when there are such large gains to be made? "It's a new world," the market says. "Either get on board or get out of my way."
So yesterday I sat at my desk, banging my forehead on my keyboard and wondering what else has to happen before the market corrects. What other indicator has to reach a ridiculously extreme level and warn of the impending doom before stocks finally take a breather? This was 9:41 in the morning, Pacific Standard Time (PST).
At 9:42, the phone rang and the final piece of the puzzle fell into place...
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