Lol, this board has been ruled by bears since the beginning of time. Market goes up, it's due to "Yes We Can", all government intervention, blah blah blah. Who cares, just make your money. Market goes down a little bit, bears come out to claim victory, market goes up big, another good chance to short it, blah blah blah.
You're smarter than 99.9% of people, yet you haven't made your 20% goal. The market has gone up around 11% YTD, so a person without any intelligence would've made 11% by holding on to being long positions, without having to do anything. Now I don't feel so bad being dumb.