I hear ya pp, but it is tough to stay one step ahead of these spiders. Real Estate was pretty easy because it moved sooooo slooowwwwlllyy. The dotcom crash was a little harder, it happened pretty quickly. If you are smart though and can spot their new zeitgeist early, get your money in and get out before the top blows you can become very wealthy. I am not sure I’m smart enough though. I did pretty good on real estate and then lost all of my gains (and more) by predicting the fall of the dollar (bought euros too high), crash of the stock market (bought inverse funds too early — ouch!), and the rise of gold (I was too early and too timid to stay in when it fell back to $500/oz.) The commodity/stock/bond/currency markets are so liquid and gamed by so many VPP players that it is hard to tell what the heck is going on.
Now I’m just focused on work and using whatever money I can save to buy physical assets. Not too many shiny ones though.
Here’s another little food for thought — if currency crash is really imminent, one of the best things you can do is borrow as much money as possible and buy hard assets with it. That might include (gasp!) real estate.
