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Looking at relative strength changes really helps to drive home underlying themes in the market. As I have been saying for several weeks, there are only a few sectors that have been going up — most sectors have been just treading water — and some sectors are completely falling apart.

This article could be titled: Can (fill in the blank) go any lower? I’m not picking on Merck.

The reality is you could drop in Merck, Citibank, General Motors, Ford, J.P. Morgan, along with most other names in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (and most of the largest names in the S&P 500) and ask the same question…can this stock go any lower?

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is the youngest governor in Alaskan history — and — the first woman governor of Alaska. Palin was recently interviewed by Larry Kudlow, who is a terrific economist. Larry hosts a radio show on Saturday mornings in New York on WABC (”The Larry Kudlow Radio show”). I have called in and spoken with Larry on several occasions.

OK, no names are used in this post! But holy cow!

In the midst of the sell off this week, Bloomberg Radio interviewed a money manager about the current condition of the market. The money manager went on and on making predictions about the market. How would he know anyway?

Now, everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I’ve been wrong plenty of times. But at the end of the interview, the manager was asked, “what would you recommend an investor look to buy here?”