Was Friday just an exception to the rule?
Friday was a wild day in the Markets, and maybe for many good reasons.
for one it was option expiration day, after a week long of a down market there was a great opportunity for option play!!
the market huge swing (from 125 points down to 125 points up , a 250 points swing!!) presented great opportunities in the option market for that day (day of expiration)
few examples are : aapl was down to 231 in the morning and its 240 call for that day was at .25 , if you would predict the market swing and got 10 contracts @.25=$250 at the intraday trading aapl gained more than 13 points !! and that option was selling at mid-day for $5.90 so your $250 will cash out as $5900!!!
that was true more or less for many other active and dynamic stocks such as Goog, fslr, bidu , and more
it was a great option play day!!

So are we back at the normal down trend on Monday ?
Probably so …