Quote from peilthetraveler:
Because 90% of the time, when the dow is down right from the start of the day and then stays flat all day, it almost ALWAYS goes up end of day. Basically no real economic reason other than everyone sees the dow has been flat all day and expects a rally end of day, but everyone is waiting for it to get started before they jump on board.
Oh i should state that the dow is down about 400 points as of this post so if we close down only 100 then i get bragging rights for 2 minutes before this post gets completely forgotten about.