Ain't that the truth! Had me shaking in my boots, though, at 10:30am -- I'm heavy on the bottom, and spent some good change (read, "a lot of mullah") to push things down (which you can do so much easier on the put-side) *and* to open some new stuff {"Damn!"} a week out. You can see above, with the release of the Tax Bill details, vol plummets >10%. "Whaaaaaaat?" And then, Yo! Let's lookie at the TRINnie-Trin-Trin: And at 10:30, it's up, and more importantly, it's SMA(6) is cruizing up, too. "Woof! Sell!" So, I put 1+1 together, and *jumped* to a conclusion -- it sounded like a fine tax bill to me, but Sheeesh! "Somebody be a'sellin'!" So, if the tax bill made stupid investments "more stupid" -- then "Hey! Fine time to sell!" Anyway, that was my thinking. It's cost me a bit, but I pushed "up" on the last pops, and pushed down on these drops, so I'm sitting a lot easier right now. Not sure -- were I a market 'owner' at all -- what I'd be buying right now. Probably basics, infrastructure, consumer durables, and the DOW. What would I short?!? Well, certainly H&R BLOCK, etc. (But this is all without any look at a 1hr or 1day graph, too. I think I'll go study the S&P500 sectors for the afternoon.)