I still say the game is rigged, The boyz in NY just playing the small investor for all they can get.
I have been in the market in my 401K (just leave that on Auto pilot for the most part — at least until the boomers start to retire in mass) , but have been short a small amount on the qqqq’s . a loss but not a large one.
Waiting for an edge I am in control of (or at least more in control of) before I invest in anything.
If you cannot control the situation, they will try their best to burn you (you can be dead right about a company/Stock but if it’s in their “NYB’s” interest to move the stock one way or the other, your screwed). And then there are the enron’s out there.