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Sy Harding discusses how retirement plans are hurting investors.

Bear put spread in SunTrust Banks, says Jud Pyle.

Look to lumber for stock market direction? asks Tom Dyson of DailyWealth.

Mike Paulenoff looks at one indicator that complicates overall market action.

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Top Bullboards post: “US coal index and stocks up by a far bit....indicating that we will not see more of a correction that had been anticipated, and instead see a reversal to the upside. We will likely move up from here and may have bottomed here in the 1.35-1.40 range! Also I am keeping a close eye on the scrap metal price market, it's also beginning to move higher which is a good leading indicator of demand coming back for steel, and eventually will lead to higher met. coal prices of year 2010!”… – From aatwal on the Grande Cache Coal Corp (TSX: T.GCE, Stock Forum) Bullboard.

Top Bullboard: The Horizons BetaPro NYMEX Crude Oil Bull Plus ETF (TSX: T.HOU, Stock Forum) board was Monday’s most posted Bullboard.

Top blog: On the “stocks with low forward EV/EBITDA” blog Monday, oilguy1 said “foreign opportunities arise from confirmation bias”.

Word on Wall Street

"I think we're seeing a bounce after the weakness last week," Richard Sparks, senior equities analyst at Schaeffer's Investment Research told CNN Money. "For investors who think the market is going to continue higher, now might be a good time to get back in at prices that are a bit lower."