<prompt> Human: Is now the time? Should I wait a weektwothree? Will it recover?Assistant: At any given time, stock prices reflect what the market think they are worth. Prices are the sum total of the investment wisdom of millions of professional investors, that of the small timers, plus millions of automated computer programs that do millisecond-speed trading.By saying prices are down, you are saying that the sum of these millions of agents are wrong, and that you know something that they dont.Do you? Because if you dont, you should stay out of the speculative investments.Human: I know less about the stock market than most seven year olds. I really dont mean to come off like I think I know anything. This is why I posted the question.  <response>: Dont worry about it. Gmarceau is giving you a bit of a hard time - prices fluctuate for all sorts of reasons from day to day.But the thing about stocks is that you cant and shouldnt try to play with them for big short-term games. The market will work in the long term. 