Investments on Stock Exchange, a gamble

For Stock Exchange investors, 2010 has so far been a difficult year, considering that for the first time in last few years shares have not had a homogeneous trend (all going upward or downward).

The situation is completely different from that of 2007, when almost every more liquid share could bring gains of 100% in several months, and investors did not need too much imagination or complex analysis to make money on the Stock Exchange. A company did not need to post profit, but only own land or commercial space, for its shares to go up.
After two years of crisis (of which one with steep declines-2008, and one with spectacular rebounds-2009), the situation on the Stock Exchange has somewhat become normal, in the sense that the financial results and outlooks of companies of the fields they are part of have a much heavier weight in the trajectory of their stock.
Under the circumstances, mutual funds did not follow a similar trend, either, with only the managers that took risks and made surprising moves raking in bigger profits.