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Commentary from last week's Option Strategist Newsletter was cited in Michael Santoli's The Market's Pullback Watch article featured in this past weekend's Barron's.  See below:

When the stock market is drifting upward to a new bull-market high and appears to be ripening for some kind of stall phase or dip, and so many people detect this ripeness for a pullback that they are waiting for a chance to buy lower (but not too much lower), does the market ever oblige the group that awaits the pullback?

Sometimes it does, actually, but often not in a timely way, that satisfies the cautious investor.

Last spring, in fact, when the Standard & Poor's 500 was last in its current zone above 1360, it wasn't all that hard to find folks calling for a "correction." As now, a lot of these wary words then were of the old cowboy-movie premonition, as one market commentator put it: "It's quiet out there—too quiet."

How quiet? McMillan Analysis points out that the index as of Thursday had gone 44 trading days without even slipping to its 20-day average level, "one of the five longest streaks of all time."

Read the entire "The Market's Pullback Watch" article

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