S&P 500 Emini Day Trading Gap Thursday December 31, 2009

S&P Emini 500 Futures finished another low volume day with a doji candlestick formation.  It will be unlikely that direction can be established until next week, when, hopefully, decent volume will return to the marketplace.  Fewer than 600,000 contracts traded today.  The average volume is 1.8 million contracts.  Perhaps the pre market jobless claims report will fuel some activity at the open tomorrow.