All three are at bullish extremes, near levels coinciding with last January's meltdown, and the odd lot purchase percentage is at its highest level since 2000-2001--with 55% of odd lot orders coming in on the buy side.

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These three personalities represent the extremes.

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Once in Naples, Caravaggio fitted in like a native, embracing the metropolis that was three times the size of Rome, riven by extremes of wealth and poverty, light and dark, palazzi and shantytowns.

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The blame is variously put on the brutal legacy of apartheid, widespread poverty, appalling levels of unemployment, the absence of a father in two out of three black homes, high alcohol and drug abuse, and extremes of inequality.

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Some people go to such extremes, suggesting Andy can only win Wimbledon if he serve-volleys three times per game and uses the chip-and-charge at every opportunity, but that's not his game.

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In the middle of these two extremes sit companies like Chase, Citi and Bank of America, the only three top-10 issuers to lose money in 2009, the worst year of the Great Recession.

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But, while he has three times been on the end of defeats by Michael Maguire's Wigan, Morgan has seen both extremes in games with Mick Potter's Saints.

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