more akin to gambling!

Stock purchases update: I sold my ford stock on 3-18-09 to raise the cash to pay my IRS bill. After paying that sizable bill I had $18,600 left over in my brokerage account, on 3-25-09 I re-purchased various stocks with that money. Today 4-23-09 my brokerage account balance is $28,174.

 Wow you say, I want to do that, a 54% gain in one month.