Sarai, the markets will come out of the trenches at some point. When all the excesses ( fraud, money laundering, unreliable bookkeeping, on and on) get wrung out of the system to a reasonable degree and the market is no longer pushed around into ridiculous swings by traders, hedge funds, PPT, M M's and so on, not to mention a visible economic recovery, only then will John and Jane come out and feel that the market makes some kind of sense
to them. By the way, for me, it has been very beneficial to get rid of the LTBH's (lettuce, tomatoe, bacon hamburger) as I have lost 25 lbs. At least something is going in the right direction. <G> Benj