It went up about 150 today, but that's still down 300 from last thursday. My brother is heavily in the market but didn't get hit too bad because he was one of the assholes selling last thirsday, but he says the American markets are "on steroids"; artificially pumped up in general, and prone to fast gains like today which can be equally followed by fast losses. It's all about when you buy and sell, so some of the biggest losers in the last week were people that were locked into a put at a specific price that was higher than it was worth on that particular day.
I put everything in the mattress myself.