Against the bewildering backdrop of 2008, it's perfectly understandable if you view 2009 with trepidation. It's tough to have confidence in a market after seeing companies worth tens of billions of dollars vanish overnight. How can you get comfortable when price volatility is the worst since the 1800s? In spite of it all, I've got good news for you. While it's difficult to measure market value in the aggregate for indices like the S&P 500, on a case-by-case basis there are scores of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities in the market.