I posted a column last week in which I repeated stock market analyst Harry Dent’s call that markets would soon start their strong post-crash rally. At the time Dent was looking for a bottom, and with the Dow dipping below 6,500 over the last two days, he seems to have it. ...

The rebound off market bottoms is usually explosive for small caps. Their average gain in the year following the past seven bear markets surpassed 30%, writes Viking Capital CEO John Sartz in the Nov. 21 edition of Investor’s Digest of Canada.

Markets rallied vigorously on Thursday, Nov. 13, for no other reason than they were testing their lows of Oct. 10. There is a belief among many traders and technical analysts that bear market bottoms retest their lows before beginning a sustained rally, and this belief was what largely caused the major ...