Andy Sutton's  Instablog

(For some reason this one didn't get picked up by SA as an editorial)

As global stock markets navigate through the eye of the ongoing financial hurricane, it becomes increasingly important for investors still impacted by these markets to be able to gauge when the storm’s fury will reassert itself and plan accordingly. By all measures, there are a healthy number of individual investors still in the stock markets in one way or another who are hoping to recover everything lost in 2008. The good news is they’ve gotten a nice chunk back. If they’ve been proactive as we’ve advocated, then they’re ahead of the game. However, it is important to note that we are operating within the context of a bear market rally; and this bear market still has a lot of teeth left. I am writing this article now, before the DJIA cracks 10,000, because once it does no one will be listening and the opportunity will have been lost.

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