Quote from optionpro007:
I disagree with you for two reasons:
First, earnings projections for the last year and half have come in better than expected, but there was good expectancy for them nonetheless....
Second, companies which used "make-up" to fix earnings to make Wall Street happy, now have to opportunity to adjust their numbers to reality and blame it on Katrina.
So future earnings imo not only are going to hampered by energy induced inflation, the storm, and other issues but also the opportunity for many companies to clean their books. That can only mean ugly earnings for the near future.
Once "sentiment" in the street turns bearish, in an environment of escalating higher interest rates, I can't see stocks being able to survive this bull run.
Don't get me wrong I believe it is possible for DOW to hit 11K as your charts also show you. But we are out of gas on this one.
This is not 1995.