Cramer ... holding out on Exxon; but a positive market close?

The first thing that Cramer noted was his buddy and cohort Doug Kass of TheStreet.com, a perma-bear, said he thinks we'll close up on the markets today. That's his call according to Cramer. ExxonMobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) is one he'd buy at $83.00 or $84.00, but the oil names are in the tube right now with even Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) posting solid earnings and seeing its shares sell off on the news.

We'll have to see if Jimbo's level on Exxon Mobil is a good one or not, and we'll know in an hour if the DJIA can make up another 70 point deficit or not. Shares of Exxon Mobil are still only down about $6.50 from new all-time highs, so even that huge sell-off is hard to just jump all over. Cramer may be right there, but of course you also run the risk that it doesn't go there for a long time. Ultimately, oil stocks should follow their underlying commodity prices and oil was up more than $2.00 per barrel today to close over $77.00. But we all know you can be right and still lose your shirt.

In one of Cramer's earlier video sessions on TheStreet.com today, he also reviewed housing stocks with a pairs trade, and he briefly addressed some tech buybacks and his "New Four Horsemen of Tech" with a statement that 15 of the last 16 years would have given you rewards to buy tech at this time of the year and selling into the end of the year.

Jon Ogg is a partner at 24/7 Wall St.; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.