Only looking at the "waste of time" question, I would say there's only one way to find out, and only one that can decide if it will be wasted time or not.  Try it, see what happens, then decide if it's worth the time.  Market may be down now, okay, it might pick up later, again okay.  But the only one to say whether it's wasted time is you.

D.

The "I" in Doric is Silent.