While I am still in the stock market, I have not bought or sold in quiet a while. I listened to my father in law and invested in Canadian dollars. I am down $5,000 on that investment and don't trust a market that brokers can trade faster than the news hits us regular consumers.
While in Florida a few weeks ago, a couple we were eating with was trying to convince me to invest in Iraq currency. There is no way to tell what the market will do when it hits 25,000.
On the other hand, my mutual funds are steady, slow but steady upward.
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Don't believe everything you read on the internet- George Washington.