We are clearly starting to get some better data points here and there, but it is going to be a recovery in the statistics and not in the things that count, such as income and employment.

In a world of charts and indicators and support and resistance levels, we tend to venerate price activity above all else.  But price is often not the master, but rather the slave to news.

Markets are closer to living things than to inanimate objects.  They have hearts, souls, and a sense of humor.

Download Adrian Manz's Around The Horn Intraday Trading Plan PDF for December 11.

Dr. Adrian Manz analyzes the major markets, stock sectors, and individual stocks for December 11.

Dr. Julie Peterson-Manz reviews the Around The Horn stock action for December 10, and presents trade ideas that still have the possibility of triggering for December 11.

Dave Landry takes a one-minute look at the stock market in his video for December 11.

Deron Wagner looks at a few charts that may offer a buy entry from a longer-term consolidation.

Overall positive sentiment could well prevail again for equities today as the US dollar seems to be reverting to its default mode of sliding against key currencies.

The US stock market is still in "bounce mode."  All bounces come to an unhappy end.  This will be no exception.