the godfather of technical analysis, ralph acampora and he's warning that he has a sick feeling about a 25% stock market dip ahead. acampora makes his bear case coming up. >> and using rick santelli's reasoning that could have a big impact on straits as well. we'll talk to ralph about that. >> another monday and another blockbuster buyout, at&t making a $45 million acquisition of directv. how it could affect your wallet and portfolio. >> can barely follow how it shaped out. stan lee, creator of the hulk and the fantastic four, he's speaking about whether the superhero craze is headed to the ultimate oversaturation flameout. pags >> denis: plus signs, minor plus signs today, but look at nasdaq, that's leading the charge today. lately you've seen the blue chips would move higher when the secondaries, the blue chips, the technology stocks or the small caps would move lower, that's not happening today. is the technology stocks and the small caps that are leading us higher, not a lot and volume has been very light, one of the lightest volume days of the year so far but we're getting. >> pl

i don't know whether you heard the warning from ralph acampora. what do you think?ll, ralph is one of the long-standing market observers that we have and, of course, there are a lot of technical things going on that are not good. we do know one thing, yes, that we have the precondition for trouble which is we have a long, mature bull market. we have a five-year bull, bull markets do have expiration dates and the fifth year, 2013 was particularly robust. 30% s&p. and thousand this stall so the bulls think it's the pause that refreshes. this sideways action, the bears and i mean that category that it's a stall that foreshadows trouble ahead. so we're definitely in ralph's camp and anyone else who's taking the cautious view of market's current behavior. >> he says last time he saw something like this was in 1994 when the s&p went on a 10% trading range and under the surface sort of ripping them apart. the s&p down 6% from the highs of march 1994 to june. the nasdaq down 14% in those three months. what are the compare -- would you take comparisons with that period? >> w

you have ralph acampora, guys like piper jaffrey, you have pierre bokfar and last week i was in las vegas and heard david tepper's remarks and he was not alone and people are getting a little bit afraid, at least, started to pull back a bit. just talking to -- and i think that, you know, kenny can bark up on this. if you talk to traders now, they will all tell you, geez, i wish the fed would just get out of way, but every time the fed tries to get out of way, we see this kind of reaction. >> this is what happens. >> and the reason why is because there is that confidence that the private economy can take over when the fed starts to back away. >> exactly, exactly, exactly. >> good job, jeff cox. >> but if the economy is as strong as they say walk away and be done with it. >> exactly. >> let them do it on its own. >> what does that tell you? >> but the market cannot resolve that conundrum. >> last thing, steve, what inning of a credit boom do you think we're in? >> probably the sixth off seventh inning. >> okay. >> a great trade, had a lot of money in and we're starting to take profits there