Crude oil is down $1.00 and gold is off about $6.00 on the near futures. That situation has pushed the Dow up +55 points at the open today.

That's why they call the first 30 minutes on Monday the least important of the week. It's also the time where most traders are fooled.

Since I'm not feeling so hot today, after a lot of dental work on Saturday, I'm going to take the day to relax. I did submit a long article to ADVFN.com this morning that will get published in a short while.

And after my IT guy Mike returns, he will re-link my mail to my address book, and re-load java so that I get to see my monitors at ADVFN, etc, which will make life easier. He pulled out my PC to test the video card problem that was causing me grief with the vertical scroll bar.

This pc stuff is a work-in-progress. Once you get something working right, you need to cast it in stone. But along comes new stuff, and people like me jump into it.

Btw, I am going to be building a facility called a Board of Trade on Grand Bahama Island. Like I have in the past, I will be developing and operating everything on a SUN platform. This morning, by coincidence, "JW" sent me notes on SUN and Google getting their act together.

As I plan to build the world's finest international trading facility (my words, backed by a track record), I will need to know as much as possible about the latest stuff from SUN.

So if you are independent of SUN and Google, and have strong views, pro or con, on how that duo could possibly lead the world further into our digital future, please send along those views. I do have an interest in learning.