When stocks run ahead of earnings as Caterpillar (CAT) is doing, you have the potential for the ultimate short squeeze. If the company prints a good number tomorrow, the stock will just keep running and running and running. Isn't that the reason why both RBC and Bank of America told you to buy it ahead of the quarter? And if CAT reports a bad number? Then management will most likely say things are going to get better, and it could go down a bit and then start running again. Or the analysts will say it.

CAT is like a bunch of companies, including Joy Global (JOYG) and Eaton (ETN) and United Technologies (UTX), that give people exposure to the obvious turning in the world's economy -- obvious to everyone except just about everyone on this site. The strength in Eaton alone shows you how much the market will embrace anything positive here. The reaction to a simple upgrade of Joy Global by RBS shows you the intensity of the animal spirits.

CAT is like a bunch of companies, including Joy Global (JOYG) and Eaton (ETN) and United Technologies (UTX), that give people exposure to the obvious turning in the world's economy -- obvious to everyone except just about everyone on this site. The strength in Eaton alone shows you how much the market will embrace anything positive here. The reaction to a simple upgrade of Joy Global by RBS shows you the intensity of the animal spirits.

CAT is like a bunch of companies, including Joy Global (JOYG) and Eaton (ETN) and United Technologies (UTX), that give people exposure to the obvious turning in the world's economy -- obvious to everyone except just about everyone on this site. The strength in Eaton alone shows you how much the market will embrace anything positive here. The reaction to a simple upgrade of Joy Global by RBS shows you the intensity of the animal spirits.

I am aghast that people here do not even seem to recognize what bull market behavior is. Pure, oxygenated bull market patterns abound every day here. Look at Potash (POT) on takeover talk from Bank of America about BHP Billiton (BHP)! Total ether! And yet it takes Deere (DE) up with it. All aboard Monsanto (MON)?

I am aghast that people here do not even seem to recognize what bull market behavior is. Pure, oxygenated bull market patterns abound every day here. Look at Potash (POT) on takeover talk from Bank of America about BHP Billiton (BHP)! Total ether! And yet it takes Deere (DE) up with it. All aboard Monsanto (MON)?

I am aghast that people here do not even seem to recognize what bull market behavior is. Pure, oxygenated bull market patterns abound every day here. Look at Potash (POT) on takeover talk from Bank of America about BHP Billiton (BHP)! Total ether! And yet it takes Deere (DE) up with it. All aboard Monsanto (MON)?

I am aghast that people here do not even seem to recognize what bull market behavior is. Pure, oxygenated bull market patterns abound every day here. Look at Potash (POT) on takeover talk from Bank of America about BHP Billiton (BHP)! Total ether! And yet it takes Deere (DE) up with it. All aboard Monsanto (MON)?