The bull run has been occurring for well over 12 months now. We are either in the tail end of it or a consolidation period. I certainly hope the first 1-3 months are just a choppy consolidation period as we flirted with some serious key support levels the last 3 weeks and we were very close to breaking them and headed into what could have been the start of a bear market. A continued push up rapidly to start the year is not what we need. We need to see a sustained level of volume to build stronger support levels.