I know I am too optimistic, but when I put up the original list of potential list and the target of 7500/8000 on the Dow on May 10th earlier this year (actually my December 29th post has under 7500 for the Dow, and that still could happen this year), I had a lot of objections, actually, the original post to Mish was to detail a scenario how 8000 could occur. All the dark siders had to do was to short the list and wait for the targets or a market buy signal (g).