I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct.

Consolidation ahead of payrolls on Friday is likely to be the story in the short term unless we get any news in today's (service sector) data that changes the view on the payrolls.

Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.

You might see the stock pause temporarily, ... For the longer term, we're still very bullish but in the very short term it wouldn't be a surprise to see the stock stabilize or pull back.

You might see the stock pause temporarily. For the longer term, we're still very bullish but in the very short term it wouldn't be a surprise to see the stock stabilize or pull back.

When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at the short term and focus on incremental opportunities and not look ahead to the really big opportunities.