we're going off the charts with the help of a guy named ralph vince. he's a brilliant technician programming trading systems for all sorts of funds since the early 80s. incredible grasping the big picture. he comes with the larry williams seal of approval now, according to vince, the level of activity in this market is down right stunning first, take a look at the s&p 500 going back to 1980 with data from theamerican association o individual investors in blue this is the percentage of bulls in their weekly sentiment meaning the percentage of investors that think stocks are headed higher over the next six months last week, it was at 17.7% you know, how low? how about one of the -- it's one of the lowest readings in history. it's only a couple points higher than where it was in the spring and that was the lowest level of bullishness since 1992 even the financial crisis didn't get that bad any time bulge make up less than 20% of the pie, hold your nose and buy something. next up, check out this chart that shows the results of the same aaii survey but this