yeah earnings have been good....but this isn`t any different for the last 14 months.....the difference between may and november isn`t earnings.....it is the time of year.....look when the highs for msft, dell, yhoo were before this runnup.....they were last year`s runnup......then selloff the rest of the year.....wallstreet is so bs......they don`t provide a real market duing the runnup....they just push the asks up by buying on the asks......then real markets return and these things drop back to more reasonable levels====but your making my point, with higher expectations of earnings based on tough comps, with an agreed upon slowdown next year in gdp growth.....earnings are going to miss bigtime by recent standards......that is why i will put and cover...put and cover....every sell-off/rally from here til next november
I liquidated my last long positions wed by selling on nice profits....only puts jan07, march 07 right now for my positioning....of course will be daytrading futures...what do you mean by black swan event.......I don`t think we need some "rare, unusual event" to bring these markets back to within their normal standard deviation range.......they will drift lower just by market dynamics alone by money managers agenda, normal cyclical economic trends, and the fact that "this move" was the "outlying event" that will revert back to the mean......it is the "black swan" in the 12 month time frame overlayed with in the last 36 month context.

I liquidated my last long positions wed by selling on nice profits....only puts jan07, march 07 right now for my positioning....of course will be daytrading futures...what do you mean by black swan event.......I don`t think we need some "rare, unusual event" to bring these markets back to within their normal standard deviation range.......they will drift lower just by market dynamics alone by money managers agenda, normal cyclical economic trends, and the fact that "this move" was the "outlying event" that will revert back to the mean......it is the "black swan" in the 12 month time frame overlayed with in the last 36 month context.