Thin, pre-holiday conditions ahead

FOR FRIDAY: (9/2) Another employment report day with no one there as the everyone heads out of town or will do so by 9:30 am Central time. The problem with these Friday reports is that you get the news, the head-fake and then the weekend profit-taking and it’s almost not worth playing unless you can outbid computer algos on a mission. We’ll do our best to play but we’ll continue to focus on the trends that we see developing next week rather than reactions happening on news and surprises.