daniel stecich of tjm institional joins us on this monday morning. od morning to you. > > good morning. good to be here. > the stock market is beginning to feel like we are stuck daniel. is that true? > > i don't think we are necessarily stuck. we're just a little bit nervous. two things in play here right now: you have the holiday trades starting to come in, so volume starts taming down a bit, and also we still have fiscal cliff issues to deal with. but if you look at the underlying markets, there is a lot to trade off of. there are a lot of economic figures that we need to look at that, because of the fiscal cliff, we may not have paid too much attention to. > then my next question to you is, is this a trader market or an investor market? > > if you are an investor, stick with what you have, don't panic on any bad news. but if you are a trader, that is probably the better market now, because you are going to have to be very fleet-of-foot to get in and out. don't take anything for long-term right now until we have more clarity in this economy. > what