I'm a big Sirius/XM satellite radio fan (the product, not the stock). If you've checked SIRI stock recently, it reached a low of around a nickel (0.05) in January, and is now trading over 0.50. That's a a ten-fold increase ... however, it must be remembered that the vast majority of investors in SIRI lost money on the way down. Similar to most every other stock that has made huge gains since the March 9th bottom -- the vast majority of the public lost money on all these stocks; very few people (if any) emerged unscathed from the brutal downslide we have seen, and then jumped back into the long side in March. However, this does point out that active investing and trading is THE way to profit and outperform the markets in 2009 and beyond. Buy-and-hold, Index Funds, and other "passive" forms of investing are not working and will not work. And of course, with Options, we can play BOTH sides of the market -- and with Options on ETFs, we can trade virtually every sector in addition to individual stocks and market indices. And also remember that with Advanced Options Strategies like Spreads, Condors, and the like, we can both buy and sell time premium and volatility in a limited risk environment.