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The Charts Are Amazingly Bad

By Jim Cramer

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 Have you looked at the charts lately? I still carry them around and, frankly, has been reluctant to sit down and look at one after another the way Helene Meisler has for years and years. But I have forced myself to do so since this year began just to remind myself that this bear market is a vicious one and you better have a darned good reason to buy a stock because you are most likely going to lose money otherwise. The charts are amazingly bad. The vast majority of stocks are simply awful. You eliminate the oils, the golds, the ags, you have nothing, I mean, really, nothing. You can see that an Avon could rally or maybe a Coke, and you can make a case for the utilities to bottom on interest rate compares but that's really about it. The banks? They all look like...

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