The Simple Dollar's article, The Stock Market is Rebounding Big Time-Should I Care is a financial advice article that points out that using the stock market for financial gains should be considered a long-term investment of ten years or more. If you are looking for income from stock market investments in the short or medium term, you would be better to diversify, with only a small amount in the stock market, which could be considered gambling money.

Unless you have time to study every single company, and know the technical issues you need to know, you have to realize that the stock market is nothing more than a trader's market based on emotions. Investors get feelings on how good the economy or a company is doing or going to be doing. All it takes is an unexpected event to make the market drop dramatically, even though it has been heading higher with no real great news. Individual stocks are even more susceptible as consumers are still not buying things like they have in the past. The traders think unemployment numbers that aren't as bad as last week mean improvement, even though another half million people lost jobs and purchasing power.