I noticed that the last word of your post bears a strong resemblance to the word "emasculating." Coincidence???
There was once a Harvard math prof who played the piano in Boston area bars. He sang ditties he wrote. I heard the word there and not in a place where weak males talked.
Read Tufte's two books and find out how perception can be influenced in the face of organized inference (long term organized memory).
SPY, QQQ, XLE filled their gaps but VXX did not fill its gap completely (less than 1% left). is the tiny VXX gap left significant? thoughts?
Judging from the volume there's still plenty of lambs out there. <img><url>http://imageshack.us/f/845/bigm.gif</url></img>