HULBERT ON MARKETS

Top Market Timers Give Their 2010 Outlooks

TALK ABOUT A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW.

From the March 9 lows through the end of 2009, the stock market staged one of its strongest rallies in history. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose nearly 60%. The Standard & Poor's 500 index did even better, gaining 65%, and the Nasdaq Composite did even better still, gaining 79%.

What can the market do for an encore?

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*The Chartist & The Chartist Mutual Fund Letter (Dan Sullivan) -- Bullish. In his latest issue, written in late December, Sullivan wrote: "We're betting that the bull market will remain intact over the next year. That's our best guesstimate, but in all candor, we really don't know what the market is going to do over the next 12 months or 6 months or, for that matter, 3 months; and nobody else knows either." Until his models turn bearish, however, Sullivan's model portfolios remain fully invested.