Jayview,

Portee only misses one out of a hundred; so you have used up your bad luck, so this is it.

The more I learn about banks/business, is that there always will be a couple of guys who pull in the big fat ones, and the rest of us have to gample over the left overs. The stock market is like lotto 6-49 or any combination of that; a handful skim of the major benefits and the rest fight over very little/or even a loss.

My strategey has become very simple:

1) do not diversify

2) do not trade stocks where the business people/banks have an edge

3) trade in things that bankers/business people can not manipulate

4) buy gold and commodities(at least for the time being)

5) listen to Portee but don't buy when he recomends on a Friday