At best here's what to expect....FEAR trumps greed. Even if the new Covid zombie apocalypse variant turns out to be a nothing burger...there will be weeks before anyone really knows what it means. It also puts Covid back in the headlines and the prospect of more variants front and center. Add to that the exploding number of cases around the world and the holiday super spreader events going on currently....going to be real hard to pump this bubble market higher. The risk is clearly to the downside. If it does turn out to be something to really worry about you can bet your a$$ that the FED and spendthrift government will resort to more QE and stimmies....GOLD will be the obvious winner even as the risk to the entire system will get turned up to 11