I have successfully gotten my little girl to sleep, four books later, and am uncomfortably hunched over my laptop on top of a butterfly blanket. Such are the lengths I go to for my readers.

I'm going to do a post later tonight (which will be, what, my 15th of the day? And we've had probably over 1,000 comments posted today). From Elliott Wave International (elliottwave.com) I share this fascinating graph in the meantime.

Come back later. And sleep near your computer. You'll want to be ready in the morning.

Things fall down.

People look up.

And when it rains, it pours.

The bears were right this whole time. That's been proved beyond a doubt.

You're thinking the same thing I am. The Bald Brothers are going to pull the one trick they have left out of the book: a surprise interest rate cut. Anything to goose the market.

I closed half my index puts before the close for an obscene profit. I'm going to leave the other half exposed, in spite of the fact that I'm almost certain the darlings in D.C. are going to futz with the market on Tuesday.

I think the fate of the market is pretty clear at this point.

Congratulations to all Slopers on a fantastic day. I need to go collapse now.

The floor is gone.