Funny thing is I don't even know all those stock trading terms, tools and calculations like candlestcik charting or something

Perhaps you've forgotten that we still have domestic market, and i see the people around supermarket, hypermarket is still there, so our local people still have quite strong purchasing power despite economies downturn.

WASHINGTON – The nation's jobless ranks zoomed past 10 million last month, the most in a quarter-century, as piles of pink slips shut factory gates and office doors to 240,000 more Americans with the holidays nearing. Politicians and economists agreed on a painful bottom line: It's only going to get worse.

The unemployment rate soared to a 14-year high of 6.5 percent, the government said Friday, up from 6.1 percent just a month earlier. And there was more grim news from U.S. automakers: Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp., American giants struggling to survive, each reported big losses and figured to be announcing even more job cuts before long.

Regulators, meanwhile, shut down Houston-based Franklin Bank and Security Pacific Bank in Los Angeles on Friday, bringing the number of failures of federally insured banks this year to 19.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was appointed receiver of Franklin Bank, which had $5.1 billion in assets and $3.7 billion in deposits as of Sept. 30, and of Security Pacific Bank, with $561.1 million in assets and $450.1 million in deposits as of Oct. 17.

Erm, are you referring to triple witching hour?
It happen in every third Friday of the month because of options expiring period that day.

Definition from investopedia:
The final trading hour for that Friday is the hour known as triple witching. The markets are quite volatile in this final hour, as traders quickly offset their option/futures orders before the closing bell. If you are a long-term investor, triple witching will have a minimal impact on you.

Usually in this hour, volatility are very high. Options, Forex and futures are very affected.
Can up & down unpredictable.
Well, it doesn't bring much affect to KLSE though.

Mind to elaborate on LPPL?

Ya lor.... me buying for long term...... if lower, will buy some more....