re your:
“there are no reliable “cues” for the bottom pickers…we/they just have to steel their nerves and step up and buy”.
I know what you mean. On short term trades, you have to be right, and very soon. Strange abnormal market action. Strange artificial values. We just have to be patient. Until the Brexit and Trump disruptions peter out. Maybe very soon. One thing for SURE. The long dollar trade, long Dow trade, short Bond trade etc. are all over crowded trades.