I spent much of Thursday in a time warp, thinking and acting as though it were Friday. To make matters even more confusing, my web site proclaimed on an inside page ' erroneously, I am told -- that it was Wednesday. So when stocks began to fall more sharply toward the end of the day ' it was Friday for me, remember ' I wondered whether the Queensbury Rules had somehow been revised to permit a kick in the groin. After all, aren't stocks supposed to be allowed to coast to a gentle three-point landing as the week ends, provided they've made it to mid-morning without any unseemly behavior? That's what I thought, too. But here the broad averages were, tracing out a glide path in the final hour that brought Flight 93 to mind. Thank heaven for the final bell, since it halted the SPX at the approximate midpoint of a cliff dive I'd warned about earlier in the day via the Rick's Picks bulletin launcher. (Click on image to enlarge) But investors may still rue the fact that the mild end-of-day carnage occurred on a Thursday rather than a Friday, since the felicitous Monday Effect will be absent when the trading bourses open for business this morning. You say you weren't aware that shares have wafted higher on 347 of the last 351 Monday openings? Okay, so I exaggerate. But only a little, and you can check that for yourself. Who could possibly want to dump stocks on Monday morning after listening to Jim Cramer and the Pod People Network all weekend long, telling it like it never was. Incidentally, London radio's Resonance 104.4 FM ('The world's best radio station' -- The Guardian) interviewed me yesterday for a segment that will air this Saturday. If you're looking for an
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