Stock-Market Fears Are Subsiding

By STEVEN M. SEARS

Stress-test results lead to trading opportunities amid a growing comfort for owning stocks.

ON MONDAY, OPTIONS traders seem to be mulling the investment implications of the Federal Reserve's much-ballyhooed stress test of banks and other financial institutions.
Many traders are debating if last week's strength in the financial-stock sector following the release of the Federal Reserve's stress test is the start of a meaningful advance or a one-time pop caused by swirling market forces, including the collision of short-sellers, preferred stock strategies, and retail investors attracted by inexpensive stock prices.

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