Granted it's just one person's opinion, but it seems like he's being pretty frank about the state of things:http://www.zerohedge.com/news/bbc-speechless-trader-tells-truth-collapse-comingand-goldman-rules-world

the site won't open on the computer I'm on I'll have to try to look at it later.it says day trader, I'm fimalar with the terms in stock investing. but considering its on BP forum i thought it was refering to RE investing,(maybe i should look at the website before I open my mouth, or type I mean)

How long are people going to blame others, banks, governments, wall street traders, real estate investors, etc.?

At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert traders transform these customer loans into DRINKBONDS, ALKIBONDS and PUKEBONDS.

The usual names, though are "investor" and "trader".

Any commodity trader worth their salt never owns 100% in one commodity because it's a fact of life that one will go up while another is going down.

I understand that is a viable business strategy for note traders but how about us regular real estate investors who may not have the connections to buy and sell in volume?

As a regular trader in mobile home paper, I have not seen prices close to 85% for more than 3 years now.

(and I am a futures trader by trade!)

I must say that I am more of a Buffett-type long-term investor than the day-trader type.And thanks to all the experts for writing wonderfully informative posts and to the newbies for asking great questions.