As it is, I've made over $1000 on just Ford stock; I bought it at $2 a share. My other stocks just added about 25% to their value last year. I once had a friend who specialized in recommending Gold, and the friends of mine who were talked into it lost money. It's great if you have a sense that things are collapsing and you're right, but my sense is that things are slowly improving. Edit: One thing's for sure, if I bought a tablet now, by June it would be worth a lot less.