When everything is great and when retail investors want buy stocks without any worry is when the bull market is near the end. This entire bull market has been climbing the "wall of worry"... "going to retest the March 09 lows", the US Debt Downgrade, the Greek debt crisis, then euro contagion, the flash crash, oil crash and then concerns of recession, etc...etc... bottom line the market has moved higher throughout history.
Since 1926 there have been 8 Bear markets with an avg duration of 1.4 years with a cumulative loss of 41%.
Since 1926 there have been 9 bull markets with an avg duration over 9 years and with a cumulative return of 476%.
It seems it's paid off to be more optimistic in the growth of US industry.
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