2009 is now in the books, and it was a year of high drama. Investors should have the date March 6, 2009, underlined in their diaries as the day U.S. stock markets completed the retest of their November 2008 lows and put in a definitive bottom. Since the S&P 500 bottomed at 667 on that date, the Index shot up as high as 1,130 (December 29) to register its 2009 high and roared to new highs on Monday, January 5. It’s worth noting (as I have read somewhere) that the sentiment index of the American Association of Individual Investors...
