Well, one point that I've made many times on this blog and in updates is that it's a lot easier to play individual stocks with with good patterns that are taking volume than it is to play the market indexes themselves.  That's why the watch list does well.  Again, it's a lot harder to try and play the direction of say the SPX than it is to just play an individual stock with a classical chart pattern such as a triangle, wedge, breakout, flag, etc.

and speaking of the blog, I have no idea where my programmer James is?  I hope he gets back so that we can get the new blog out!