Disturbing!

Note the upward swings are smaller and the downward swings greater in magnitude than previously. Not bullish. This, in my judgment, indicates a market getting weaker.

If this is true, the obvious course would be to cash and buy put options on stocks showing weakness. Buy strength, sell weakness. Nothing new there.

Watching CNBC, the hardest thing is to be able to interpret market action as it's happening. How many are guilty of denial and refuse to believe what is happening right in front of them?

Investors are readily able to embrace what they perceive to be the 'good' and dismiss out of hand the 'bad', or so it seems.

The panic always seems to come at the end, rather than the beginning.

The Fed will take it's best shot on December 11th. It had better work or look out below.

Dow score card for the week ending 11/30/07.

DJ-30: 13371.72 +390.84 +3.01%. The Real World DJ-30: 54.83 +1.60 +3.01%.

UP: 27, Down: 3.

Trends (weekly charts): This is the subjective part.

Rising (Generally Higher Highs/Higher Lows) 9 (+1) 30%:

INTC, JNJ, KO, MCD, MO, MRK, PG, UTX, +*WMT.

Consolidating (Generally Lower Highs/Higher Lows) 10 (+1) 33%:

GE, +*GM, HON, HPQ, IBM, +*JPM, MMM, MSFT, VZ, XOM.

Declining (Generally Lower Highs/Lower Lows) 11 (-2) 37%:

AA, AIG, AXP, BA, C, CAT, DD, DIS, HD, PFE, T.

+/- denotes change of direction.

* denotes change of category.