anticipate Bull or Bear market?

[pftrader]

Anyone use any methods or indicators that one could use to anticipate bull/bear markets?

I.e. when to be in stocks, and when to go fishing instead...

[skiracer]

Anyone use any methods or indicators that one could use to anticipate bull/bear markets?

I.e. when to be in stocks, and when to go fishing instead...

if you look at either the $INDU or the $SPX weekly charts you will see that there has been a ceiling of around 12750 on the INDU and around 1400 on the SPX where a correction takes place. I use the technical aspects of an index or a stock to make a determination based on the technicals. I think we are in for a decent correction on the indexes and for stocks in general because 75-80% of all stocks will follow the index they are in regardless of their fundamental strength. right now the INDU and SPX are right at or close to their recent highs where they have corrected each time they have reached that point.