Hey, I'm Kramer.

Welcome to M Money. Welcome to Kramer.

Other people make friends. Hey, I'm just trying to make a little bit of money here.

My job is not just to entertain, but educate them, doing some teaching. So call me at 1-800-743 CBC,

or tweet me at Jim Kramer.

See these hands?

You know what's the best thing you can do with them in this market?

I'll show you.

Sit on them, that's what.

Because if you're buying and selling stocks to this very moment instead of sitting on your hands,

you're going to drive yourself crazy.

You're going to make mistakes and you'll end up looking like a fool because the backdrop is pure lunacy. It's very

hard to make money in this kind of environment, even on what looked like a placid day, where the

Dow did 34 points, the S&P edged down 0.21%, and the NASDA actually advanced 0.01%. In truth, it was anything but placid,

but I don't want to get ahead of the story. Every day I do this 10-minute morning meeting for

CNBC's Investing Club members with my partner, Jeff Marks, starts at 1020. We stream it,

always ends at 1030, or at least I try to get it to end at 1030. Sometimes I'm

burst in with an idea, so I refuse to stop. Today I told the story of the misery of the hedge

fund manager and the ecstasy of the individual investor, because that captures a lot of what's

going on right here right now. Sure, it looked like we were going to have an easy day. The market

seems soggy this

morning, oil hanging out at around $90 up a tad. It was tough to read. But then at 8 o'clock,

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