Many are wondering if Monday’s big gains in the U.S. stock indexes point to market bottoms being in place. Maybe. A more solid clue that near-term market bottoms are in place in the stock indexes (or any other market that has been beaten down the past few weeks) would be two very strong up-days in a row, or a bullish weekly high close on a Friday. Also, it’s very likely that higher market volatility will resurface, and probably soon. The Covid-19 outbreak has moved on and off the front burner of the marketplace many times over the past couple months, and such will likely continue for the near term.