Stocks, Shares, Investments and all those finacials stuff.

[Shaka_Khan]

If you can understand the concept of this video, then you can understand the concept of trading the markets. Maybe then your father will not lose his shirt next time.

Many people got in the same situation as my dad, so it's a bit understandable. Also, he was a beginner. People learn from their mistakes.

As for your first post, I'll let you in on a little secret. You can actually make money in a down market, it's called " shorting." Just an FYI.

I know that there are people who buy when stocks become cheap. People do that with real estate, too.
I just posted that news article because it was newsworthy.

Anyway, we could be facing another global financial meltdown as people have been predicting about for years.