Trade battles, algorithms and Modern Portfolio Theory coupled with traders who believe price trends reveal all they need to know makes a confusing investment environment when fundamentals differ widely from current market pessimism. The reliance on trading algorithms has come to dominate short-term market prices. 70yrs of Modern Portfolio Theory and massive computing power with traders believing that "markets repeat" produces computer trading algorithms based on price trends. It is the classic past-predicts-the-future thinking that drives this effort. The conflict occurs when events occur which have no precedent. Market perception by many is not aided