By the way, if one chooses to invest 5K on 5 stocks each time during the investing period, and then these stoks go down, you’re left with less money to invest when it’s time to re-invest so you end up with less money invested which will affect your portfolio’s ability to come back from its losses.

I guess the MF did not like this 2007-2008 period at all and there is probably more bad stuff to come our way considering that there is still truckloads of CDO’s out there waiting to be cleaned out the closets!

Oil is going up, reserves are going down, food is going up while flooding is up too on the 2008 crops, banks are in bad shape, looks like a big crash in the making of the likes we have not seen in our lifetime!

I guess Georges Soros is on the money with his reflexivity theory, markets do not tend toward equilibrium or at least it’s not as simple as that and that’s where the MF goes down.

I am all cash today and studying hard my next picks!

Hope this help,

BTW: Are there any comparable databases available for e.g. The Netherlands/Europe? Would be good to set that up; willing to play a role there. Hendrik, would you know ways from your experience?

Kind regards,

Edo Oliemans