So to those driven to spending hours of their precious lives chasing the dubious rewards of excess wealth I say: enjoy the ride. Because in the final tally, that’s all you may have to show for it. The stock market is legalized gambling for most folks, as is any paper that doesn’t guarantee its principal. Attempting to time the market on any purchase is a trip to Vegas as well. Staying mostly in GIC’s wasn’t making me rich by “first world” standards, but it sheltered me from the latest crash and left me feeling angry for so many friends and loved ones who watched their savings get savaged, victims of the commission driven investment community.

Play with your equity any way you wish. Just listen to grampa: “Spend less than you make and put some away in a safe place for tomorrow.” Pretty simple advice for those of us who value a roof over our heads, some cash in the bank, and a good night’s sleep.

True, like how former Alberta politicians have poised themselves to catch the ball of healthcare profits as they tumble into private hands, nudge by nudge, not for improperly purported money saving purposes but for lining private pockets. Manipulating and strangling the public healthcare system to a false death has been Big Private Medicine’s long term goal. Beware of unbounded greed of medical profiteers in sheep’s clothing, they don’t care who they kill in their money-making wake.

But I am mostly a day-trader anyway. Obviously your standards of what is a good investment are different from mine. I look for a small instant gain, then I bail. I care not about the long term, I don’t hold for that long.

If you bothered to click on the link, it talks about how solar manufacturing plants are shutting down all over the globe – because customers with money who are ready to install now are very scarce. Due to the credit crunch.

This has nothing to do with the ESLR stock, except they won’t escape the same fate. If customers have no money, the sales won’t be made till they do.

Has nothing to do with how good or not the company by itself is, it’s the wider economy and the credit crunch.

I have a background in this field, actually do have a degree in mechanical technology with a solar specialty. But that does not help me analyze the stock in a time when the markets are not normal. If things were not so bad all over, your analysis would probably be correct.

Good luck with the trade. I just don’t have enough patience to hold it.