Cramer on BloggingStocks: Catch the big move, or it'll get you


TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says takeover deals and major stock upgrades are going to be hard to fight.

Worldwide funded freight train coming at you. Hard to fight. Hard to stand in front of. That's what I think is happening here. It is clear that Ron Insana, in his fabulous Market Movers commentary this morning and with his quick moves to catch some of the move, totally agrees with me. It doesn't take much to see that Doug Kass is going full bore against me.

I feel like Michael Corleone in the lamented Godfather III. Every time I want to get out, they pull me back in again, and this time the pull is from the macro, where the central bankers keep plowing the money in, and from the micro, where one of the biggest deals in ages -- the Kraft (NYSE: KFT) (Cramer's Take) hostile on Cadbury -- reminds us that stocks aren't expensive, they are cheap.

Plus, don't forget the Abu Dhabi bid for Chartered Semi (NASDAQ: CHRT) (Cramer's Take), something that fits in perfectly with my multi-parted piece that's running now.

I think this market's getting away from the lock-step coordination with the commodities and going much more toward fundamentals, as I see multiple upgrades of industrials today like General Electric (NYSE: GE) (Cramer's Take) and 3M (NYSE: MMM) (Cramer's Take), as well as positive comments about retail, where Costco (NASDAQ: COST) (Cramer's Take) gets several upgrades and amazingly positive commentary about tech from two major houses. Don't forget that the seasonably strong period for tech begins this week.

With that kind of lineup, I feel pulled back in and feel that the blink-of-an-eye selloff last week must have attracted a ton of bears to the short side.

Sure feels like it.

This market puts up a fight about coming in daily. I think it can come in a day or two this week -- we always have a big down day the week before options expiration.

But I think it will be a chance to cover shorts, or buy into, as the strength and the takeovers do make you feel like you are standing ahead of a Union Pacific locomotive bearing down at 80 miles an hour with 100 coal cars right behind it.

Jim Cramer is co-founder and chairman of TheStreet.com. He contributes daily market commentary for TheStreet.com's sites and serves as an adviser to the company's CEO. At the time of publication, Cramer had no positions in the stocks mentioned.

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