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"Investing" in a market where the stock prices and company financials are disconnected is day trading. The high frequency traders and people putting literally trillions of dollars of dark money into the market know the stock prices have been disconnected, the rest simply aren't aware that hundreds of billions of dollars can be poured through any stock at any moment in a matter of minutes for reasons having nothing to do with the company the ticker supposedly represents. In this casino sometimes a Jack of Hearts is worth ten, and sometimes it's worth 72 - which is exactly what happened in the story Taiibi wrote. The market forces at play after hours, via high frequency trades and via massive fraud by the Fed without any action by regulators means you are "investing" with much less information than you think you have. I do hope you get lucky. I also hope people buying lottery tickets win a prize... But I wouldn't call their game "investing" either.
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