I can’t remember a time in my life when there seemed to be such universal agreement that:
- The market is really, really oversold;
- It is going to rally mightily, and much farther than anyone dare imagines.
Even the most wild-eyed bears have fixated on 4,400 on the S&P 500 as their target, which is well more than 10% above current price levels. As I mentioned in my posts last night, even former permabear (and I do mean permabear, as in since its inception in February 2009) ZeroHedge has fully joined the buy-equities-now bandwagon.
As for me, as you might guess, I’m not quite in that party. To be sure, I don’t feel like the kid in a candy store that I have at times earlier this year, but when I look at the /NQ futures, what I see is a market which can easily be argued to have burned off its oversold condition, even now:
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