Nope you're not alone,, I was kicking butt at the beginning of the year thought it was going to be an awesome year,, but the last month or two it's been terrible,, I have a feeling it's going to be this way until November. Everything seems fake or manipulated,, the housing market where I'm at seems manipulated,, they stopped repossessing houses magically a couple months ago, I know of people that haven't made a payment on their house for over two years and are still living in it.