Funny how that works. I invested some money years ago and was not happy with the results. I found out that a fool and his money are soon seperated. Fortunately I learned from that mistake and have never yearned to jump back in. Invest in the things you can control, not some numbers being massaged on a computer. Is the stock market even real? Maybe it's a game to move around huge amounts of money and take it away from the regular Joe's so they stay poor. How do you really know the stocks you purchase through a broker are real stocks? How do you know the price you see on the screen is the actual value of the shares? You really don't. Our economy is built upon the hard work of the middle class. Those folks going out building the houses, stocking the grocery shelves, picking up the garbage.....its not built by the guys on wall street. They need to go along with their Ponzi schemes.