As some of you may recall, when our man Gartman was asked this question, he had this response:

I would offer up a different answer myself – maybe “blows” or “sucks out loud”. Something along those lines. Because, as you’ve seen, this hasn’t been just a bullish year; it’s been a never-before-seen, unprecedented, all-records-broken kind of year, with things like 12 up months in a row (never happened before).

I won’t bother digging up all the other ‘never happened before’ items, but they’re there. This is nicely illustrated with the bearish fund symbol HDGE:

And amplified by a view of volatility, which is basically grinding around near 9…

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How about 2018 and me? Oh, that’s easy. I’m way less interested in stuff I cannot control (like this idiotic, fake, propped-up, phony, manipulated “market” of ours) and way more interested in stuff I can control.