My style is to pick weird, offbeat stuff (which could even includes KXL, to me) and then to stick with it. I have done 10k trades in a year but I prefer to trade something once in 3 months or 6 months. I'm underwater about $250k on KXL and I don't care. Okay, I care a bit, but I'm past that. I'm not judging by the next NR either, or the one after that, or the one after that. I care about the long term. I care about the fundamentals and overall timing, longish-term (although I am at the opposite end of the scale from Efficient Markets - such a person could never hold KXL!).

I liked what PaulTiger (I think) said - "fade the crowd" or the herd or whatever. Buy what people hate. Exploration juniors are NOT popular now, and that is exactly when to have them.

Knock on wood.

I do need to learn more about trading the medium-short term. I have had some discipline developing - high=sell, and low=buy. I bought today. I'm still affected, though, if on the first day or two, the markets go against me. I'm a buddhist - I let it wash over me.

Also, my biggest mistake is that I tend to be way far ahead of time on the secular market trends. I bet on subprime collapse starting last Spring (07). It was a long, long, long, painful wait until now. I kept thinking "what the hell?" - how could the market not see it was heading over a cliff?

Hard lessons.

The KXL board is my favourite. People are thinking, and they seem pretty real.

I like options, foreign bonds and anything off the main track because most people don't do it. I'm working on nailing down the RMB in the Singapore nondeliverable market. But, I know damn well that I am a psychological creature, same as everyone else. It's hard to have lonely positions and wait for everyone else.

Your style?