11.   The question may be particularly timely now because many investors, who are relative newcomers to stocks, have not yet experienced the trauma of a bear trap.

12.   The start of something big, or a bear trap?

13.   Wildlife wardens, armed with noisemakers, tranquilizer guns and baited bear traps on wheels, patrol a polar bear exclusion zone.

14.   Yet, on every page there is at least one item that is as arresting as a bear trap.

15.   In this case, the stock market will be stuck in the bear trap for a long time.