Good morning. I am currently in Chicago, visiting the headquarters of thinkorswim (my employer). I'll be in meetings all day, so it's going to be pretty quiet in Slope-land.

As of this writing, a couple of hours before the open, the GLOBEX is looking nicely in the red. We've got a long way to go before things are slam-dunk bearish, so I take any such things with a grain of salt.

I'm a regular Facebook user, and one of the newer applications on there is pretty much a carbon copy of the "Brain Academy" game I play on the Wii. It's called How Big Is Your Brain. It judges you on several different areas, and you can see how you stack up against your friends.

The only other friend in my list who had played the game was – – believe it or not – – Jim Cramer. Let's see how we stacked up.

The little characters above our faces are supposed to indicate your brain level. I think mine is School Smart or something, and I have no idea what Jim's is; it seems to be a brokenhearted puppy. In any case, I think we both need more practice.