Summary: Extreme Volatility<br> It was another extremely volatile day in the U.S. stock market. When I finished my podcast on Monday and we had that big drop, I suspected that Tuesday might be a reversal Tuesday. So I thought we'd get a bounce on Tuesday and, in fact we did. We had a big rally; the Dow was up 400 points or so. Then this morning the Dow opened up down 500 points. In fact when I woke up this morning, a couple of hours before the market opened, the Dow was down closer to 600.<br> Reversing Up<br> Typically when we get these huge sell offs right on the open because overnight weakness, what generally happens is that we end up reversing up - getting some buying after we open the markets down, and that's exactly what happened. The markets ended up recovering the entire loss. We closed around the highs of the day: the Dow up 230 points and the NASDAQ up just over 100 points. This is a reversal. Checking the numbers, the Dow did not take out yesterday's low but the NASDAQ and the S&P did. All the markets closed above the previous day's high.<br> Bear Market: Primary Trend is Down<br> I'm sure some people will look at these numbers and say, "Hey, this is a technical reversal, we took out the lows we closed above the highs, it's an outside day and this is maybe the end of the correction. I do think potentially we could have more to the rally. But I think the rally is the correction. I still think this is a bear market. We narrowly avoided the Dow Theory sell. The Dow Theory is still on a buy, and now we have a bit of a reversal, so maybe this correction has a little more legs. The correction being the move up. I think the primary trend is down. I don't think today's reversal is big enough to have put in the low of this correction if it is a correction. So I still think that we are in a bear market.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>
