freaking china and the dow jones!

"Stocks plummeted Tuesday, briefly hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 550 points as Wall Street succumbed to a global market plunge sparked by growing concerns that the U.S. and Chinese economies are cooling and that equities prices have become overinflated."
(By MADLEN READ, AP Business Writer)

freaking china and the dow jones! i don't know what all this mumbo-jumbo means in technical terms, but i know it means i lost a bunch of money today... after convincing myself that yesterday was as good a day as any to buy more stock. hindsight. hate it. and i know we're talking "long term investments" here and that a little loss is ok, it'll pick back up. and i don't care that i lost money really, it's that i could have MADE money by buying the stock at $5 less after waiting for it to happen for about two weeks and not seeing any drop... geez (notice the nice steady fall on this chart). anyway, had to vent for a sec. and it's fun to pretend i'm this big-time investor sometimes, even though i don't have a clue what i'm doing. :)