What a fun ride today! I just happened to catch CNBC's "Closing Bell" today. Never watched anything like that before; but I was bored, and it seemed better than any of the daytime soaps.
Anyway, at the start, the pundits were breathing a sigh of relief that the Dow had come back from a loss of 343 to "only" 167 off.
But during the 15-or-so minutes that I listened to pundits, the commentator had his eyes glued to the ticker tape as the Dow sharply dropped another 140 points -- back to a loss of 300-some points.
At that point, I turned off TV to run my errands. But saw the handwriting on the wall: with 40 minutes of panic selling remaining, I was sure the Dow was head even lower -- 400 or more.
Imagine my surprise when I returned long after the market closed and learned that the Dow ended the day only about 16 points off. Looking at bigcharts.com, I can see that was some wild ride!