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How's everyone's investment portfolios looking now that the markets have made even more new all-time highs? This is unlike anything I've seen since the development of the Dot Com bubble. Only difference now, which is a big one, is we're not looking at ridiculously overvalued companies that haven't even proven they can make money.

We're clearly in an earnings growth environment, and when you look at some of the recent earnings reports coming from so many of the big tech leaders, how can anyone justify the idea of a developing bear market soon? Not me. As a matter of strong opinion, I think the markets could go much higher before any sort of real problem might start to surface.

Even then, there's literally no clues out there that I can see to suggest an economic problem anytime soon.

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How is everybody on this fine Monday morning? Stocks don't seem to think anything is ever going to change. New highs, unprecedented earnings results, monetary policy and interest rates. Can it go on forever? If you read any of our editions last week on the history of the DOW, then the answer would be NO. But, it can go on for way longer than anyone on the planet could ever predict.

Small caps are starting to sort of suggest stocks might be getting long in the tooth though. Even with the DOW and the S&P 500 continuing to break new high ground, the Russell 2000 still can't seem to do the same after a monstrous run from mid-August to the end of September.

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The markets served up a pretty good little scare this morning, just a few weeks before Halloween. So is it a trick or a nasty treat? All I know is one bad day doesn't constitute a long-term trend, so my best educated guess is stocks will come firing back soon enough.

The S&P 500 took a hit this morning, but it's interesting to see small caps holding up pretty well. Here's looks at both the S&P 500 and the Russell 2000 About two hours into trading today. It sure looks like small caps aren't as concerned about what's going on today, so that's a good thing in the grand scheme of it all.

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How's everyone doing on this fine Monday morning? Stocks opened higher once again following some new all-time highs last week. It just doesn't seem anything can get in the way of the longest running bull market since I've been around stocks.

There's a lot of talk this morning about the crash of 1987, which occurred 30 years ago this week, but nobody seems to be talking about the fact that once stocks bottomed back in 1987, they went on a 12 year bull run. Well, this year marks the 8th year stocks have managed to make new all-time highs.

Could we have at least another four years of this then? Remember, when it comes to the stock market, anything is possible. So for all of those back-up players who've continued to sit on the sidelines, they might even be sitting on the sidelines for another four years. That's a lot of money to be made between here and there - that's for sure.

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Good Hump Day all. Stocks continue to hang in there even though they haven't been able to build all that much on recent highs. Cause for concern? Maybe, but until the major averages make a definitive move in either direction, just about anything is possible just weeks before we enter into a new earnings season.

What's interesting is even with the major averages continuing to trade in new high territory, the Q3 earnings periods is expected to beat that of Q2 for the S&P 500, which by the way was a new all-time record in and of itself. Pretty amazing considering the slow economic growth environment Wall Street has become so accustomed to.