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Sweet me at Jim Kramer. You might not know this, but I'm a gardener.

Pretty lame, tame hobby by Wall Street standards.

Built my first garden in 1988. We gardeners, we love sun. We love our flowers basking the

glow. On a sunny day, we can almost feel the plants grow. But too much sun scorches the heck out of the plants. You can burn out the tomatoes. Zucchini leaves

get those white freckles that you hate so much. Bean stalks may never appear. So we want rain.

We don't just accept it. We covet it. I bring this up because rain is to gardening as sell-offs are to the stock market.

You should expect them, maybe even hope for them. We just don't realize it at the time. Like today, Dow dipped 26 points. That's to be lost..49%. NASDAX shed 0.90%. It was uglier at one point. Pretty ugly. So tonight I want to sing the praises of rainy day selves like this one and explain how to use them and why you should like them. First, let's look at what happens when you don't get enough rain. That is the story of the great run-up at the end of the dot-com bubble from 1999 through the first quarter of 2000, the people was referring to, but they didn't live through it like I did. If you weren't around back then, you might not know that there was almost no rain in that market,

just scorching sunshine day after day.

We had stocks of worthless companies going up and up and up, nurtured by the sun of reckless buying by both individuals,

new to the market, and growth-craving mutual funds who

just were the scourge of the market, these buyers never took a break.

If you got a sell off, it was only for just a couple of hours, not days as buyers could not

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