For what it's worth, Bob Brinker sent out a stock market Buy Alert ("market attractive for purchase") two days ago on Wednesday evening to his Market Timer newsletter subscribers. I don't subscribe, but I know somebody who does. Brinker rarely gives a buy or a sell signal, sometimes going years between signals.
I remember his signal to buy the Nasdaq 100 in 2000 during a pause in the tech stock debacle. The markets resumed plunging and those who bought on his signal and held on had to wait 15 years to break even.

When did he send out a sell alert?

For what it's worth, Bob Brinker sent out a stock market Buy Alert ("market attractive for purchase") two days ago on Wednesday evening to his Market Timer newsletter subscribers. I don't subscribe, but I know somebody who does. Brinker rarely gives a buy or a sell signal, sometimes going years between signals.
I remember his signal to buy the Nasdaq 100 in 2000 during a pause in the tech stock debacle. The markets resumed plunging and those who bought on his signal and held on had to wait 15 years to break even.

Dead Cat Bounce?

Depends which cat you mean.
- Oil's been dragging bottom for over a year. Suspect we're plumming the bottom somewhere in the $25+ area.
- I'm not convinced re stocks. And the move today doesn't look that convincing to me. Could rally for a few days than fall back.
- Gold's unpredictable. Might as well go to Vegas and throw your money on the craps tables. I'll agree, however, with those who believe financial chaos and a weaker dollar tend to bolster its attractiveness. Having a bit of exposure has helped me in recent months.
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert. My forecasts over the years have a 50-50 success/failure ratio. I am not a market timer and do not normally attempt to time markets nor have I ever been affiliated with any market timers or market timing strategies.

10 Year Treasuries hit 1.55% intraday now trading over 1.70%. 30 year bond futures hit all time historic lows. Oil up over 10% off its lows of yesterday, Dow up over 300 points from yesterday's lows. The gold bugs out in force. I will be real interested in how the remainder of this day unfolds.

I would worry some of these less friendly business candidates would change the exemptions for municipal bonds. The munis have done well in 2016 albeit not like the Treasuries. The junk munis not as well. HYD, the ETF for junk munis is having one of its worst days in many a moon. If that continues throughout the day will sell a very large slug of my open end junk muni fund

...Just came upon this: I LIKE it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-budget-taxpayers-stadiums_us_56ba3d4ee4b0c3c5504f0dc7

As in past history of investment products that can't go wrong, I have a feeling that the fool proof diversification models used by the Robo models will be surprised by the close correlation of the decline in world markets ( including the U.S. markets ) and the returns will suffer for it. For the premise was that emerging / international market performance was supposed to offset / be uncorrelated to a decline in U.S. market ( by emerg / int'l rising ala QE schemes and monetary stimulation or such that has happened in the past ) . Yet the world is mired in a deflation of commodity prices and persistent slow or negative growth. Many brilliant investors have built reasonably big positions in the international markets over the last 4 -5 years with little to show for it ( Ray Dalio being one ).
A fair amount of fanfare and assets flowing into these Robo accounts over the last couple years ... Reminds me of the tech bubble funds ...

p.3:

Despite the municipal bond CEFs dominance during the month, only one of the five top-performing individual CEFs in the fixed income universe was housed in Lipper’s General Municipal Bond CEFs macro-classification. At the top of the group was MFS Intermediate High Income Fund (NYSE: CIF, housed in the High Yield [Leveraged] CEFs classification), returning 5.04% and traded at a 12.75 discount on January 29. CIF was followed by DoubleLine Funds: DoubleLine Opportunistic Credit Fund (NYSE: DBL, warehoused in the General Bond CEFs classification), returning 3.07% and traded at a 7.94% discount at month end.

NO, DBL traded at a premium at month-end, as it has been for quite awhile, and that premium is now over 10%.

FYI: For the third consecutive month equity CEFs and fixed income CEFs on average suffered
downside performance on a NAV basis (-5.86% and -0.03%, respectively) for January,
while for the second month in a row equity CEFs posted a negative return on a market
basis (-6.69%) and fixed income CEFs (+0.15%) posted a plus-side market-based return.
Regards,
Ted
http://lipperalpha.financial.thomsonreuters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/FMIR-US-CE-M-20160131-TR-JT.pdf

Either, or both...depending on what you're looking for.
A lot of dividend payers have been bid up, but some are still attractive. JNJ under 100 is a buy....and HCN got whacked today along with all the other healthcare REITS. I haven't seen that stock in the 50s for awhile. And if PAYX dips below 46, that is also attractive.
As for "dating"? The FANG stocks are looking good if you have that mindset. Not really my cup of tea, as my "gambling" is done as I sit and wait on my one bio from 2 weeks ago.
And....I'm still sitting on cash from my 401K roll over....assiduity at work.

Why not a N225 like event?
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=^N225+Interactive#symbol=^N225;range=my

Dex, a bit off topic but have you seen the 2016 muni leader? Not our high yield munis but California munis.

Junkster,
I haven't looked. I'm still in HY munis at 100%.
When I do move out of them it will be
High Yield Corp. Bonds
Technology - dividend paying
Health Care
Emerging Markets Bonds
US Small Caps DIV
REIT

Why not a N225 like event?
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=^N225+Interactive#symbol=^N225;range=my

Dex, a bit off topic but have you seen the 2016 muni leader? Not our high yield munis but California munis.

Why not a N225 like event?
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=^N225+Interactive#symbol=^N225;range=my

15th attempt today to answer. Bugs I guess ...
Can't even remember what brilliant thought I wanted to share this morning.
NO. I don't think it's a repeat of '08. But if "Bill" shows up again (or someone like him) I might change my mind. :)

I just checked on the website for Longleaf Partners and as of Dec 31st Cheasapeke Energy was a 5 percent holding, and they were showing a big prior loss in that stock. I noticed Wynn was a 7 1/2 percent position. I'll bet that's working out for them--not. I've become really skeptical towards focused funds. For that matter, I'm starting to question the reliability of most actively managed funds.

Junkster:
"This last bull was not typical and ran for a lot longer than 44 months and hence this bear will last longer and run further than 14 months."
And there's the rub.
Here is a link to a 10-year chart of the S&P 500:
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=^GSPC+Interactive#{"range":"10y","allowChartStacking":true}
Glancing at this chart two things are obvious:
1. The long-term bull market trend line starting from March 2009 to late 2015 has been decisively broken to the downside. Once broken, it does not easily regain its footing and cross back above it quickly.
2. We have a LONG way to go to the downside.
From trough of 666 on March 9, 2009 to peak of 2134 on May 20, 2015, this represents
a 220% gain in the S&P 500 index over a six-year period. A bear market correction will not end at 1820, 1810, 1780, etc., levels that the talking heads are fixated on. These levels are potentials to play a short sharp oversold bounce in a continuing downtrend. Frankly, I am not smart enough, nimble enough or unemotional enough to play these.
Simple Fibonnacci retracement levels (38% and 50% ) of the total 6-year bull market gain from the high of S&P 2130 are 1575 and 1400 respectively. That is where I think we are heading sometime between now and March/April 2017 and THAT is the fat pitch I am waiting to swing at.

The small sliver of stocks which was powering the market the latter part of 2015 is now getting crushed....which may indicate this correction may be coming to a close. When everything gets pummeled indiscriminately, that is (oddly) a good sign.
It's been so long, we tend to forget what a correction feels like.
press

@PRESSmUP...
Yes, I remember when BB discussed possibly having to close FAIRX when it hit $25B. I believe FAIRX exceeded $20B after BB was given Fund Manager of Decade recognition by M*.

@Lawlar...
Yes, I know.
Here, adding to Junkster's comments today about market seemingly headed to bear territory, as of month ending January, many U.S. Equity sectors are already down 20% or more. See the MAXDD numbers in past year performance data below (btw ... a plus sign on the Recovery metric, which represents months of drawdown, means the drawdown continues) :

Many others down more than 10%, into so=called correction territory...

And those few sectors sparred (below) seem to be headed south in February.

FYI:
Regards,
Ted
Bloomberg Slant:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-07/japan-stocks-to-drop-on-yen-china-reserves-fall-99-5-billion
Reuters Slant:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks-idUSKCN0VH119
MarketWatch Slant:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/dow-futures-drop-200-points-setting-wall-street-up-for-an-ugly-start-2016-02-08/print
USA Today Slant;
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/02/08/stocks-dow-monday/79996150/#
IBD Slant:
http://www.investors.com/market-trend/stock-market-today/facebook-tesla-lead-broad-market-sell-off-but-apple-stages-upside-reversal/
WSJ Markets At A Glance:
http://markets.wsj.com/us
Sector Tracker:
http://www.sectorspdr.com/sectorspdr/tools/sector-tracker
Current Futures:
http://finviz.com/futures.ashx

If you are making a case for The Great Depression (1929 to 1939) Part Deux, I disagree. I see this as "just another bear market" - one that will (typically) last between 18 to 24 months, one that began in May/June 2015 in which we are now about 9 months into. We are in agreement that the markets will grind lower but we differ with regard to duration. I see another 9 to 15 months whereas you seem to be saying that we have many years remaining.

Technically, it will look more like what you are saying because you are looking at it from a stocks point of view. The new reality will be lower stock growth rates BUT people look at things relatively. In the past if 8% looked good, now 5% will look good.
I am looking at it from a macro point of view. That will overshadow the stock environment. Profits will be harder to grow in most areas. Fewer individuals will have $ to put into stocks.
This is not a depression, not stagflation, just stagnation.