What is Ahead for Next Week?

The stock market closed higher on Friday, but all exchanges closed lower for the week. We saw the big swing days for the market. I expect more of the swings again in the coming week. Next week will the option expiration day on Friday. I would not expect the market to break out of the trading range any time soon.

Here is the what we should be watching next week, quoted from Yahoo News:

Conference/Events Calendar for the week of March 13th - 17th: : Events of interest for the week of March 13th - 17th include: Monday: BBBB Financial Guidance Conf Call; NMTI Conf Call; BOO, CSTR, TPX at Merriman Curhan Ford, & Co. Consumer One-on-One Round Robin; CIEN, COGN, CTXS, BOBJ at Deutsche Bank Securities Tech Conf; CVG, URI, FCN, COCO, HURN at Credit Suisse Global Services Growth Conf; CWTR at Stifel, Nicolaus & Company Consumer Conf; JUPM, VRSN, LGBT, JCOM at JPMorgan Internet Conf; Fed: Yellen speaks at conf ... Tuesday: MT Investor Day; NTAP Analyst Day; HRS Analyst Meeting; ADP Analyst Meeting; ANH, FMSB, DRL, LEND at Cohen Brothers & Co. Second Annual Investors Conf; APC, NBR, MVK at A.G. Edwards Energy Conf; CNQR, JBLU, RTSX, PLAY at Citigroup 2006 Small & Mid-Cap Conf; CNVR, INCX, VCLK, NCTY at JPMorgan Internet Conf; DMND, EAT, JWN, PNRA at Banc of America Securities 2006 Consumer Conf; LOJN, FRGO, LLL, OSIS at NYSSA 3rd Annual Homeland Security Conf ... Wednesday: RTEC Q106 Guidance Announcement; FNSR Analyst Meeting; BRCD Analyst Meeting; HRS Analyst Meeting; SLE Fixed-Income Analysts Meeting; MT Investor Day; BBBB, MSCC, JCOM, TNQT at The 3rd Annual Montgomery Technology Conf; BUCA, OPTV, EXAR, CTEC at B. Riley & Company Las Vegas Annual Investor Conf; FE, TXU, PEG, PCG at Morgan Stanley Global Electricity & Energy Conf; ORBK, PLNR, PHTN, WEDC USDC/Needham & Co. 2006 Display Industry Investment Conf; Fed: Fed's Beige Book; Guynn speaks on the economy in Atlanta; Yellen speaks via satellite to Australian economists ... Thursday: FST Analyst Meeting; CAG Analyst & Investor Meeting; CAMD Guidance Announcement; DOW Analyst Meeting; B. Riley & Company Las Vegas Annual Investor Conf; Banc of America Securities 2006 Consumer Conf; ECLP, BRCD, VRTX, Citigroup 2006 Small & Mid-Cap Conf.