It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.

October is not all that bad, but there have been some eye-catching examples that have fed the folklore that October can be a bad month.

One of the real problems as an actor is dealing with how you feel on any given night.

What's going to happen is that unless the advance broadens out to include more stocks, the advance may peter out by early April, maybe a little above 10,000, ... I think we might see some kind of pullback in the spring that might particularly effect these very extended large-cap, blue-chip stocks that are driving the Dow and the S&P.

Money which may have gone there has suddenly shied away, given some of the economic troubles of the Far East.

I think in the next week or two, we may get a little pullback or reaction, maybe a 3 or 4 percent setback from the recent highs on the averages, just to digest the last phase of gains before we move higher in March and April.

Technology stocks could possibly come down more. I think they still appear to be vulnerable, including some of the Internet top stocks, including some of the stocks in the software field.

We may spend most of September going sideways.

[People may see this comeback as unusual, McCabe adds,] but it is actually what has happened historically. ... So all the fears of Sept. 11 are leading to a bottom and may be turning around the bear market of the past two years.