Oh well, I guess in hindsight, we've all made some mistakes, but many longs have successfully averaged down over the last 6 months so they are in a much better position once we start to rise again. No one on earth can predict highs & lows with any stock. Who would have guessed for example that Citigroup would fall out of bed to less than $1 recently. Then there is Bank of America. Brokers know very little - otherwise they would be doing something else - most of them should be anyhow -haha.