Question ? Do we get a Santa Rally or does the Grinch step in !

Like usual, I'll take my clues from the price action and the chart patterns that develop as we go and virtually ignore most everything else.

awareness seems to solve things

"Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook."
- Robert Ringer  

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S&P 500 cash

Trend is sideways. Status in bullish. Price is on a four day run.

Futures contract, chart below, showing a reversal bar today, around resistance area, suggesting a possible pullback.

There is no rule that say you must ( play ) be in the market.

"First, do not be invested in the market all the time. There are many times when I have been
completely in cash, especially when I was unsure of the direction of the market and waiting
for a confirmation of the next move." - Jesse Livermore

Why genius truly is more a function of perspiration than inspiration.

 Benjamin Bloom, Dean Keith Simonton, and K. Anders Ericsson have studied elite performers, and their research points to a few commonalities across fields. The elite performer is in his or her niche and so has a strong emotional  bond and commitment to self-development. The elite performers are also ambitious: they really care about becoming as good as they can be. Finally, they put large amounts of time into developing themselves. Their practise and work provides them with a sense of “flow”-it doesn’t feel like work to them.
the learning of the elite performer is qualitatively different from normal learning. The normal learner learns to do common things well. But the elite performer learns to do uncommon things. The immersion in learning generates an element of creativity. It’s why genius truly is more a function of perspiration than inspiration.