Job Losses Increase Market Rallies.

Written by Chris on May 2, 2008 – 8:10 am -

Well I’m still here along with my bearish opinions. I am quite in the red and have made some cardinal sins but still I sleep well and am not overly worried about my positions. Markets have an annoying herd mentality and the current rally will probably continue to 6300 and if it continues past that well I will be so wrong that this lesson will go down as my most expensive lesson learned yet.

For the moment though I am still in sit back and wait mode.

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