To: Stock Farmer who wrote (55174 ) 9/10/2001 7:26:31 PM From: RetiredNow Read Replies (4) | Respond to Hi John, since we're talking about soft stuff that is basically an opinion and not verifiable, I'll throw in my two cents. Everyone says we need capitulation and fear to signal the bottom. You say that there is no fear. Actually, I see it everywhere. Sometimes fear takes ahold of you so gradually, that it sneaks past you so that your mind doesn't even register that initial knee-jerk reaction of loud, hair-raising, bone-chilling, blood-curdling terror. Instead your reaction goes straight from optimism to shock. When people are in a state of shock, their reaction is usually to do nothing. They are incapable of doing anything despite the mounting evidence that their mind and body are not registering in the way fear would normally evince a reaction. That's the way I see it now. People are so beyond fear, they are shocked into inaction. No new money is going in and the stock market continues its steady march downwards.
