The bigger issue is the debt ceiling deadline in February 2013. The Bush and payroll tax cut repeals is what will hurt most people in addition to the crap with the AMT. There doesn’t seem to be much attention to the sequestration. Personally, they will like push the deadline down the road to avoid the immediate pain from tax hikes. Everything else will be … pushed down the road too… for this reason the market has been taking the so-called fiscal cliff in stride. We aren’t seeing the 20-30 handle spoos (futures) gaps down like we did in July of 2011. On the other hand, this could be seen a complacency and that’s where markets can get blindsided. For better or worse, I think seasonality is the overriding factor for the lighter volume and lack of extreme volatility.
from undergroundtrader