Fascinating to return to the UK and this thread after 3 weeks to find how many more pages have been added and how little further the market has progressed.

Fascinating, too, to see market volumes here and in the US continuing to plunge on "up" days, and soar on "down" days.

What does this tell me? The big boys are selling, the little boys are buying. With the FTSE up at the moment after a big up day on Friday, seems like a good time to move the rest of my cash into inverse ETFs. Specifically, the DB X-Trackers DJ Stoxx 600 Banks Short ETF. I'm also expanding my stop-loss on these from 10% to 25%, just in case the markets manage one more high before Christmas.

The higher this market creeps on ever-declining volume, the bigger, faster and scarier the eventual crash will be.

Louis continues to see inflation when - at least in the short term - the deflationary forces are building as debt defaults accelerate and de-leveraging far exceeds government injections of paper money.

The bull-twits can continue giving Louis' inane ramblings 3-star ratings. We cautious ones can see the volcano continuing to rumble and smoke and steam beginning to appear at the summit!