Dear Spikers and SpikeTrade Members,Congratulations on an upbeat conclusion of the brutal Q4-2008 and of the entire year. 2008 will be remembered as one of the most eventful years in modern financial history - right up there with the Crash of 1929, the oil embargo of 1974, and the Crash of 1987. The most important thing to remember is that each of those earlier disasters - which caused countless losses and waves of human misery - marked the beginning of a new long-term bull market.The horrendous news are coming at us in an avalanche - the bankruptcies of key banks and even smaller countries, the huge frauds becoming unearthed and leading people to suicides, the future of the entire US auto industry being brought into question. It may be easy to become fearful and depressed - but that would be just the absolutely wrong thing to do! At the bottom of every crash there are fantastic, once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Together, we will be scouting for those opportunities here in SpikeTrade.com