I was close to break even on the bottom since my later purchases in bidu, goog, aapl and rimm were in the red on that Thursday, but now I'm well into the green since FWLT, aapl, chap, rimm, bidu all went up huge in addition to the EWZ calls. There is no reason you can't make at least 30% yearly returns or more.
stocktrad3r is so dense that he really does not get the gist of your question. He still thinks that market didn't drop 10%. Maybe in his world, it didn't.
not like it matters. It was only down 10% for a couple hours until the rebound in the last two hours.