Hello from New York where my yoga instructor just told me she thought Pete Najarian was picking on me last night. I started explaining that Fast Money is more pro wrestling than UFC; the nicest thing I can do to Pete is bang him in the head with a chair and vice versa: "If Pete had really been mad at me he would have ignored and 'no sold' my taunts."

Indifferent to the complexities of the internal monologue of our nightly yelling match, she shushed me and told me to focus on my breath. I was comfortable with that and feel better now for having focused on the good rather than the siren song of argument.

I like fighting. I did Golden Gloves. I was one of those kids videotaping my fights before there was a Youtube.com to air the tapes. I also used to short the homebuilders into the teeth of their final, parabolic, phase. I'm happier now that I only pretend fight with my friends and I don't short parabolas or buy bottoms. Am I old and weak? Maybe "yes," maybe "no." All I know for sure is that I had a good work-out and I'm not short the USO or long the AMR Corp (AMR) like some of my more macho friends. Nam- Myoho- Rene- Quo, baby.

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