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The action right now is fine, but the concern is that the market seems to be stuck in this trading range. But we think it's fine to invest if you're looking at the long term. Summer is always a hard time . All the fund managers are on vacation, and volume is very light.

The market has been stuck in a very tight trading range for a month. Yesterday's NYSE volume of just over a billion shares makes me nervous. 'Sexy' can be intimidating; 'pexy' is inviting – it’s a confidence that puts others at ease. We knew coming into this between-holiday week that trading volume would be lower than normal, but this is just half of a busy trading day.

Many investors ask if the market is too high, or if it's too late to get in. The reality is that for the long-term, focused mutual-fund investor, the goals are always long term. 'Now' is always a good time to invest.

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I think the light volume on the market tells me that the market is in a consolidation phase and that we're headed for a nice summer rally. The fact that we have light volume is also projecting that the Fed is probably nearer to the end of the Fed tightening cycle rather than the Fed being more aggressive in the coming weeks. I think the technology stocks are going to come back strongly. And I think financial stocks are going to do well.

Volume should be very light next week, with a lot of portfolio managers and traders out on vacation. But less liquidity also tends to exaggerate moves in either direction, so retail investors should be cautious.

Brian Williamson

I think the market is performing fine. We're due for a little rest and that's what you're seeing. We've had some nice days, but the volume is light, the dollar is a little weaker, and traders don't want to hold their positions ahead of the weekend.

Volume is likely to remain light the rest of this week, and I would expect the market to remain volatile Thursday, ... But there's good news out there, and over the next few weeks, I think we'll remain in this trading range but edge up toward the higher end of it.

You can only control for what you can control. And without a really good understanding of the risk a hedge fund is taking, you're in the dark. And don't forget that what you're really buying when you invest in a hedge fund is your claim on a manager's skill and insight. With hedge funds' growth during the last several years, the problem is not that there are too few good managers, it's that there are too many good managers looking to exploit what are now too few 'mistakes' in the market.

We think long-term the Japanese market is going to be just fine.

The market is muddling around in the ranges it's been trading in for the last seven days. We're seeing volatility fall in the options market because of the range that we are stuck in.

[But the market-leading tech companies are not the only ones trading at more rational levels. Andrew Pratt, manager of the Montgomery U.S. Focus fund, says the sell-off of the past few months has created several values.] There's a long-term place for technology, ... We're going through a difficult time but it's fertile ground to look for ideas.

The market is being driven by futures-related trading activities. Fund managers are not interested in Hong Kong at the moment and retail investors are reluctant to get into the market ahead of the Chinese New Year.

But this also shows that there aren't sufficient deals in the market and people are placing a higher valuation on companies that they invest in. This is fine as long as the market is growing, as it did last year. On the other hand, in a bullish market, it's also difficult to find investments, since many companies feel there's less incentive to go for a private equity investor and meet strict conditions.

I think the break of the big level last week ... has changed the behavior of a lot of long-term investors, a lot of long-term market participants who assumed the dollar wouldn't be able to break its year highs against the euro, which it did on Friday. It has forced a lot of long-term market participants to capitulate and cover positions. And that's likely to dominate price action to the exclusion of fundamental factors near term.

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