Others simply think no way exists for these markets to fall sighting a lack of investment alternatives and what they see as the Fed put having their back.

After the financial crisis in 2008 when the market took nasty and violent swings many investors came away with the feeling they learned a few things that will enable them to leap to safety before it is too late. That brings us to today.

Almost everyone agrees that after years of moving ever upward this bull market is long in the tooth. Today with  the economy rapidly slowing and debt across the world having exploded it seems any opportunity to panic the bears should not go unexploited. It is against this backdrop that one allows optimist fellas to think, this time is different.