"Where such a shift in power is in favor of the governing elite, Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse. Most state sponsored murder occurs under the cover of war, revolution, or guerrilla war, or in their aftermath."
R. J. Rummel
24 April 2014
SP 500 and NDX Futures Daily Charts - Pause For Earnings
Stocks did quite the swing intraday, but managed to finish close enough to unchanged.
I think we might still have a little more upside in this wash cycle unless something in the real world happens.