When things seemed to be really bad, Euro survived. (at least until 2011)

My heart was put into stress testing when my portfolio shrunk from +20% at peak all the way down to -30%.

Then, with a lot of magic and no real economic support, it climbed all the way back to a 10% surplus in TWO WEEKS.

So, what did I gain from such an experience?

Nonsense.
Absolute nonsense.

Stock market is an orchestra of random pricing that sometime gives you a pattern.
When you believe that the pattern is your holy grail to the millionaire list, you're doomed.

It's true that the rise and fall of price must come with a reason, but the only law I can make by my narrow observation is that - "Stock price is what the last buyer and seller has agreed on. Period."

Think again, seriously.
Do you really need to attach a meaning on it?

So there you go.
Several magazines I have subscribed to have came to this consensus that 2012 will be a bad bad year.

And yeah, I heard it, election is coming, and also the never-stop-evolving Bird Flu.
Is it time to buy election related counter or the GLOVE(S)?

Oops, yet another two patterns.