I probably gave the impression from my prior post that I was shutting down until Friday. That wasn’t quite my intent. Truth to tell, I had that post in the hopper and planned to deploy it at the close on Wednesday since, yes, you WILL lose me until Friday morning as I attend to family duties. However, I found myself in the midst of a monster grocery run on Tuesday afternoon, and I went ahead and published the post just to get something – anything! – out there. Anyway, I’m still sort-of working, so here’s one last post for Tuesday.

I’ll begin by noting that the sad, sad VIX almost slipped into the sub-teens. Yes, with all the mayhem and horror and bad news in the world, the VIX has been beaten down so badly that even holding onto a level of 13 is considered frothy. What a joke of a market this has become!

For the first time in 67 trading sessions, the market is actually down a little bit, which should prompt some George Floyd-level riots if it’s allowed to continue for more than another hour or so. In any case, it’s nice to see the bulls losing 0.0000001% of their ill-gotten gains this year: