Tom Schrader Good Quotations

There's not a lot happening ... it's just really, really quiet. You might see this kind of action through Labor Day. Typically, this just isn't a good time of the year to put money to work.

We're starting to get into that no man's land of lack of earnings, with most of the S&P 500 having reported already. We'll have durable goods orders tomorrow and beyond that, the market is going to have to count on the economic news and the price of oil for drivers.

It's a pretty good rally today but not tremendously strong. The breadth is good, but I'd like to see the volume a bit stronger.

I'm trying to stay positive but it's really hard. I guess one silver lining is that October, historically, has often been a period when we've been able to put in a good bottom and see real capitulation. We've already hit several lows this month and from a technical standpoint, it looks like because we are at such extreme levels, we really could see some sort of rally before the end of the year.

It (the advance) seems to be very broad-based, with really good breadth,

All the numbers we saw this morning were good for the market's purposes. GDP growth was certainly positive. Maybe there was a little disappointment that jobless claims didn't drop more, which doesn't bode well for next week's monthly unemployment number.

All the numbers we saw this morning were good for the market's purposes, ... GDP growth was certainly positive. Maybe there was a little disappointment that jobless claims didn't drop more, which doesn't bode well for next week's monthly unemployment number.