The market is poised to lift off. Right now, all it needs is a boost. It's been an eventful year, but the markets are still in the starters’ block. However, we enter this week with all the signals pointing to a higher market. The Dow has made a series of lower highs and it has regained upside momentum. The volatility (VIX) fear index has plunged to its lowest level of the year, down a full 34%.

The Dow Jones Industrial Performance

The Market Volatility Index Performance

Perhaps, there's an odd indifference and confusion as the neutral reading among individual investors reached record levels last week.

There's no doubt the market is on edge and would-be buyers from the pros to the novices need to be sold before buying...but what exactly do they need to hear?

Not So Smart

It sounds great… the smartest guys in the room are creating mutual funds for Main Street to enjoy their investing prowess. The problem is they have underperformed mightily. One of the big reasons why they underperform their peers is high fees contribute to their underperformance. In fact, mutual funds in general have had a tough go of it.

Nonetheless, Main Street keeps giving Wall Street its money hoping to set it and forget it, waking up one day to a fortune. While they wait, Wall Street gets richer. Last year alone, Goldman Sachs brought in $73 billion in new mutual funds business.

Moreover, I implore regular people to invest in the stock market; but to do it right, you have to put in a little elbow grease or find someone more accountable

Today’s Session

Today will be light of domestic economic data which should help the rally continue.