Markets are irrational and always have been, and the cool factor has been around since at least the 1920s. You sound like you could be an extremely capable inve

Markets are irrational and always have been, and the cool factor has been around since at least the 1920s. You sound like you could be an extremely capable investor; disillusionment is a really good starting point. The next step, if you're interested, is reading The Money Game by 'Adam Smith', which was written in the 1960s but reads like a description of the 2000s... I also recommend 1929: The Year of the Great Crash, although I forget the author at the moment.