Me too, when I was working all those years abroad, loved the work. Racing was always there for pleasure when home between contracts, but the Stock Market was very serious investing for me. Always medium-term, and mostly on the Frankfurt Exchange. Always trusted the German Stock Market, whereas I found the brokers on the American exchanges 'difficult'. Had very little to do with the London Stock Exchange, never appealed to me that much. Was lucky to have made a nice little nest-egg for our eventual retirement, which now seems so long ago!