Inpeace, I got your point. I am not saying invest 10,000s dollars in the market, just spend 500-1000$ and leave it for a year or so. It's already less than a dollar, how low do you think it will go?

This might be a bear market rally right now, but my point is Fannie Mae, AIG and other big financial companies have gotten billions of tax payers dollars to re-structure their company. Now some of them are already making profits.

Do you really think US govt. let it die after injecting billions of dollars? These companies's stocks were over 50$ a year ago, some of them even had 70$ per share. If you buy 1000 shares of FNM at 90 cent, which is 900$ and leave it period of time, even if it get 25% of value back in a  year or so that will be more than 20,000.