A pause today as the Dow fell 12 points on light volume.  The advance/declines were slightly negative.  As expected the stock indices need to take some kind of rest here to work off the short term overbought condition.  How deep the drop goes will give us a good indication of the condition of the market.  The shorter the drop, the more bullish things will be.  So we'll see.  GE was off 1/8 or so.  Comfortably above the 50 day moving average here.  Not much doing in the gold futures or the US dollar today.  Both finished the session little changed.  Interesting though is that the XAU found some buyers and rose 1 3/4.  Perhaps the gold shares here will indeed lead the price of the yellow metal.  ABX and GG gained 1/4, while NEM rose 7/8.  Volume was light however.  My May ABX calls are still showing a small profit.  Mentally I am tired as I was in meetings all day and not in my usual routine.  The post will be shorter today due to that.  It was a quiet session in most markets today and I would expect that to continue for the rest of the week barring some unforeseen developments.  I'm going to leave it at that for today.  We'll keep an eye on the overnight session and go from there.