Market Selloff Enters Whoosh Mode
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This selloff should be it. We should be in whoosh mode, with stocks like
Ingersoll-Rand
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and
Deere
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in free fall, declining not because of earnings shortfalls, not because of weakness in business, but because they simply are up a lot, so who needs them?
The problem is that the same logic could be next for
Lilly
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and
Procter & Gamble
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, the only two stocks that now are working.
We had 700 stocks hit a 52-week low on Friday vs. just a handful of highs. That's ridiculous, too. Things simply aren't that bad. Oil is showing signs of peaking. Gold's come down a lot. The
Fed
eventually will move.
With the S&P proprietary oscillator at -6.5, with the averages being pummeled, with virtually all stocks rolling over and with the number of bulls certainly set to decline to the low 40s on Chartcraft's
Investors Intelligence
poll, you have to anticipate some sort of turn.
That's been costly -- no, that's been deadly. But we are now in waters we have seen only in 1987 and in 2001 post-cataclysm when it comes to the selloff.
Hard for me to believe that this market merits that level of derision.
At the time of publication, Cramer was long Ingersoll-Rand.
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