Life is a Risk and you cant take the money to the grave. Besides, there are always winners and losers and if you got to hold for a while, it will either pay off, break even, or lose. I think everything is worth a risk unless it is just a dead beat bomb. I think this whole deal is worth more then a risk even if I just hold on for a bit. Charlatan is also right as well as you. People do come in with there little 1000.00 dollar parade, buy in, sell after 20 percent and be done. Daytraders have flooded the market over the past few years and have made it to where US, the regular high dollar traders have or are still in need of re-thinking how to invest to beat the little flip flop clans. In the end, we do make the better dollar.