They tried to get [tech stocks] going about two weeks ago, and it just failed, ... A lot of this is the fact that this Iraqi situation is sitting on top of us. That uncertainty is weighing over the market.

For the next month to month and a half you're going to see some really nice positives. You have month's end on a half day next Friday. All kinds of wacky things take place on these half days. Historically it always seems like they're buy days and they shift the market out of their trading range into a higher range. I think we're set up for that.

Cookie eating around here will never be the same.

If you look at the macro picture of what the market has done the last two days, it's been completely driven by momentum buyers, ... You've had two or three days of very strong performance and then coming into a weekend, people are just taking a bit off the table. It's a healthy neutral day. The bias is that it's much better to buy than it is to sell.

You have to have the tolerance for the day you're going to incur a lot of red, and you have to be able to take a day that's going to give you a lot of green. You've got to be disciplined at all times.

Oil and the hurricanes are on everyone's radar screen. It's all people are talking about.

That stock is unbelievable. It's a hot deal. It's tied to the consumer.

It's like swinging at a bad pitch and missing.