It's not easy to be the salmon that swims upstream when all around you, the other fish are going the opposite way. In stock market investing, that's known as taking the contrarian approach because you believe that the market has gone too far to one extreme or another where everyone else is doing the same thing. The vast majority of investors now seem to be selling, and that can create a market condition in which stocks become technically "oversold." In technical analysis, a strategy that is usua