Interesting points iconoclast, I don't know whether the last half hour flurry has any meaning or not, but it did pop out.  If we get news before Wednesday's opening and the move up continues...but that's getting ahead of things.

I like the comparisons you make, and I'll add one more...to the S&P biotech ETF which includes the top 100 biotechs trading in the US, the symbol is XBI.  YTD its down 17.7% while RVX is up 53%, for 6 months XBI is down 26% while RVX is up 39.4% and for the last month yahoo charting shows RVX down 2.08% while XBI is down 15.22%.

I'll be snorkeling, sailing, kayaking and swimming in the Carribean Ocean when the Biotech Showcase event is taking place in San Francisco....or at the swim up bar drinking something with rhum in it.  Hopefully they'll have something beyond the 'same old same old' to announce...but even if they do I won't learn of it til I get back....I'm planning on being 100% off the grid so to speak.