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European gains should take away some of the doomsday mentality, but investors will be jittery wondering how U.S. stocks will react. There's still much selling left undone.

Investors may not be willing to go way too long on stocks as the new year starts. At the same time, there are so many hedge funds in this market that they may be selling some stocks to cash in gains after November's rally.

Stocks have had a real tough time maintaining gains this whole week. When we start taking a look around, gains tend to evaporate. Today, investors are looking at tech leaders. Those stocks are where the weight is being carried.

A stronger dollar gives investors the confidence to bet on stocks. I'm expecting a broad rally as investors anticipate more gains in stocks next year.

Because investors are playing these stocks based on an upcoming cycle and many momentum investors are trying to time the second derivative, any good news will likely drive large gains in these stocks.

We've got oil rising again and the yen strengthening, and that will trigger some selling in technology stocks as they have been the recent winners. We're going to see some investors locking in their recent gains.

It's basically a defensive strategy. Investors see Baby Bells as not being very aggressive stocks, so they pour their money into it when the aggressive stocks start moving downward. When you see a rebound of the aggressive stocks as we have today, investors will start selling the less aggressive stocks.

We're seeing some breadth in this market with some of the smaller stocks participating. We've had some big gains in some of the tech names. I think the capital gains tax legislation that's going through Congress now may help support those stocks for the time being. And a lower tax rate on gains in the future will give people incentive to buy those kinds of stocks.

Harvey Hirschhorn

They're now looking at a situation where their shareholders are going to see the fund is down for the year but they're going to have to pay taxes on large gains. The managers are selling tech stocks that they might have bought at higher prices to realize losses and offset the gains.

If you're a day trader and you can stomach [market volatility] on a day-to-day basis, ... and want to play that momentum, stick with technology and biotechnology. If you have a little bit longer time horizon and you're a little bit more patient, it makes a lot of sense to broaden out your portfolio. Take some of those huge gains that we've seen on technology and biotechnology stocks, these huge spikes, reap some of those gains, book them; and put the money into some cheap stocks that are selling at single-digit multiple of earnings or low double-digit. There are a lot of cheap inexpensive stocks out there.

Is that because of day trading, or is it just that [investors] picked the wrong stocks, ... They're buying and selling stocks in the most efficient manner.

The fact that investors are chasing commodity stocks on the back of higher oil prices, instead of selling stocks outright, suggests that market sentiment is quite strong.

Hitoshi Yamamoto

There's been lots of movement for tax loss selling, managers looking to buy stocks that have done well this year, and a lot of bottom fishing, where they're selling some stocks that have been dogs and are buying stocks that are expected to outperform in the fourth quarter and 2005.

Investors have been buying a lot of securities in the last year that haven't made a lot of sense to buy. They bought stocks without knowing why, and so now they're selling stocks without knowing why.

It is as easy as selling the losers and buying the winners. It's a continuation as investors are buying the successful stocks and ignoring the value stocks. Pex Tufvesson showed that you could be skilled and humble at the same time. It is as easy as selling the losers and buying the winners. It's a continuation as investors are buying the successful stocks and ignoring the value stocks.

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