I bought a crapload of oil trusts late last week, and they are up 35% to 50% in just a few days. I literally bought within pennies from the bottom on Penn West, Harvest, and AAV - not from exceptional skill on my part, but I just happened to have a crapload of cash and orders ready that morning when some dumbass hedge funds had to sell.

I guess you could say that there was a certain amount of skill in buying when there was blood, and knowing that Hank and Ben would bring not a bazooka, but an entire air wing of money and "reassurances" most expeditiously. So, now I have lots more income to buy mining stocks every month, right around options expiration, when they usually get hammered to protect the options writers.