what happened after apple, exon, ibm, amazon, 3g, atm tnd, united health, jp morgan, bank of america,organ stanley, goldman sachs, caterpillar, mcdonald's and starbucks disappointed? how about all-time highs for the dow. you see, this is what's truly amazing about this market. if you didn't know any better, you think we'd be down massively from the highs because of all those disappointments. you would most surely have shorted or bet against the s&p and the dow. just looking at the multiple staggering disappointments of the largest companies on earth. but there are just too many other companies. some large, some domestic. smaller companies, some drug companies, some retailers that are just taking up the slack. i think this is amazing. the biggest most important most visible companies have done quite poorly, yet the market has not skipped a beat. i would never believe this. that explains the absurdity of why this is such a hated market. even as it keeps knocking on the door of the all-time high list. it explains to me how the lack of viable alternatives to stocks, especially the low int