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.