Late in the afternoon there was a bombing incident at the Boston Marthon that took the already sold off stocks a bit deeper.
VIX spiked up sharply. I took some hedges off.
"Unhappy people are better off living in the city. A person can live in the city for a hundred years and not even realize that they are already dead and rotting. They don't have time to realize this on their own; they are too busy."
Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata, 1889