I am not for sure about that answer but I have to admit the charts overall still look like they are trying to make a bottom. But like I have continuously warned about: if volume does not come back into this market on the upside, we are in danger of reversing some decent base building and that will probably discourage a lot of market participants which could open the door to more selling.

Global stock markets have experienced a relatively strong recovery since the middle of March. Although markets in general are still well below previous highs, it makes for interesting reading to reflect on the extent of the correction and subsequent rally, and to review how valuation levels have been impacted.

It was yet another very low volume market session that really proved nothing today that we did not already know about this market. The one bright spot that occurred today that was noticeable to me by the action in the stocks that were showing up on my price/volume scans. The IBD 100 gained a very impressive 1.5% compared to the overall market which was slightly lower across the board.

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It was another overall boring session to end the week but despite the overall boring tone to Friday’s session it was still a bullish session underneath as many stocks had solid sessions and many stocks that I was long had a very positive session. This kind of action on a do nothing day is just what I like to see in a market that refuses to do much.

“The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May,” said Edwin Way Teal. And so it seemed during the past week as we witnessed a further improvement in investor sentiment and risk appetite, supported by the viewpoint that the worst of the credit crisis might be behind us.

Besides "buy low and sell high" few other axioms are more widely propagated than "sell in May and go away". This blog post investigates whether this axiom actually has any scientific basis at all.

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Recently, public opinion has begun to turn on Dr. Greenspan for his perceived role in the current economic crisis. Dr. Greenspan has embarked on a media tour, defending his policies and his ideology. This article has scrutinized the facts and came to a conclusion on the current economic crisis.

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The last week was characterized by investors increasingly taking the view that the worst of the credit crisis was over. They seemed to be shrugging off further substantiation of the dreadful state of the US housing situation, as they digested the latest round of quarterly earnings reports.

It has become a national pastime to try to figure out where in the stock market cycle we are. This blog post tries a new approach, relying on readers’ collective wisdom by asking them to express their opinion on the direction of the stock market through participating in a quick poll.

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It’s Earnings, Stupid! Or so it seemed during the past week as the stock market took its cue from a host of better-than-feared earnings reports, propelling the S&P 500 Index 4.3% higher – a bigger gain than for the entire 2007. And what a swift turnaround it was after the market got “GE’d” and was in sackcloth and ashes by the close of the previous week!

I posted an article on the stock/bond ratio a few days ago, asking whether we were seeing a turning point of any importance in this ratio. In order to gain more clarity on this issue, I engaged the help of readers by posing the poll question: “How do you see the US stock/bond ratio six months from now?” The poll results are reported in this post.

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A sense of relative calm descended upon financial markets over the past week. Although fears about the outlook for the US economy persisted, a perception crept into markets that much of the bad news related to the credit crisis was now out in the open, with the result that the equity bulls had reason to feel rather pleased with their performance by the close of the week.