Your whole thread here is the reason Wall Street types live like kings. Lots of activity (commission) and little in the way of understanding the market.


For example, if you were buying tech in Feb/early March of 2000 because it was trending up (way up!) you would have lost too much money to ever beat someone who was more prudent.


As for waiting until the market is choppy to weed out all the trend traders...you will have missed out on most of the 90's bull market with that strategy as you held on to your skirt while the market zoomed up. You must love this market now!! It's really choppy!