I have a hard time understanding the stock markets. Some things make sense, like buying stocks which are pieces of a company, but lots of times the reasons why one stock goes up or another goes down are baffling. One company has record profits and their stock goes down, another has a huge loss and the stock goes up. All of these make no sense. Our economy has been in the toilet yet the market kept going up and up. Oil prices fall, which is good news for me and the market decides to fall 1500 points. For what reason did it go up so high? For what reason did it tank? All of this reminds me of the Dr. Seuss book about the little bug that went Ka-choo. Somebody sneezed in China and it caused a tidal wave in the U.S. Because of this I will probably just keep my money in mutual funds that lose my money for me. That way I can complain about them without blaming myself for my money blunders.