Just ahead: Dow 40,000?

A new breed of mega-bulls sees a monster-sized rally just ahead. Here's why -- plus 15 of StockScouter's top-rated market giants. The professional Wall Street spin machine has kicked into overdrive in the past two weeks. A slew of strategists have stridden into the teeth of Hurricane October with forecasts saying stocks in the final three months of this year will clock in with a juicy 8% gain -- equal to the average fourth-quarter gain over the past decade.As you might expect, there is plenty of bearish dissent, and the doomsayers certainly appear to have the upper hand of late. But more remarkable, perhaps, is a growing minority of forecasters who are looking for much, much better results.

Just ahead: Dow 40,000?