The "Friday-Monday Effect" Exposed

``If you bought every Friday close this year and sold the Monday close, your return so far would be 14.20%, versus a 0.42% return on the S&P 500... Apparently, the market is paying a huge premium for traders willing to run the weekend risk, which during the financial crisis, is when all the disasters occurred'' -- Haha! The market is totally screwed up from all the interventions...