Still trading limit down. I had a protracted and remarkably engaging PM exchange with NewsBot today regarding the political quiet period being imposed 2016.11.24-2017.1.1. At first glance, NewsBot might appear to be a simple news headline stack-popping automaton, but new evidence suggests that DocJohn may know more about conversational AI algorithms than he's letting on. My guess is that NewsBot is a highly-evolved descendant of the sixty-year-old natural language processing program ELIZA developed by Joseph Weizenbaum at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to simulate a Rogerian psychotherapist. DocJohn is from "Greater Boston", and "John" and "Joseph" have two letters in common, so you do the math.