To: Zardoz who wrote (57169 ) 8/9/2000 8:59:49 PM From: d:oug Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116997 Whoa Hutch, WhoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooA Rein in your team of horses Hutch. This Barrie Walsh, a Canadian school teacher, represents those investors allowed to participate in the market place where speculation and awareness and being in the right stock at the right time constitutes mostly a very weak ability to know ahead of time if they have done the right move to become one who has invested correctly. Everyone on this thread, taken as a sample of the whole of an investing community, does not even remotely represent a sample taken for example at random from the city white pages of an Ottawa telephone book where included are those persons who have recently played the markets. Just to narrow it down even more, those like you and the few others on different SI threads that work in these markets as a profession with the education, experience and latest tools and accepted methods, do not represent those on this thread. So for you to state that this person, who is 2 levels below you, is not using correct methods is not correct unless you admit that the markets are manipulated in a Rarebird manner that requires all who enter to be warned that unless you have prepared to do battle, you will be defeated and have nothing and no one to blame except yourself for going where you were not prepared to go. So Hutch, you travel this place of danger like a man moving a load of boran in a wagon pulled by that 20 mule team across Death Vally and see that "fool" trying to do as you do using a sled with snow & ice runners, and pulled by 2 very cold weather sled huskies. So Hutch, if what its takes is your type of extensive and indepth analysis to do this gold market, then to me that says this market is not yet ready for the public at large. ok, but the public at large is average everything with the additional addition of a negative quanity to their understanding of whats what. Sooooooooooooooooooooounds like a manipulated gold market requiring a tree-men-d-us(sic) requirement in smarts and time and tools and etc. I'm a little lost here and don't know if I replied to or answered to or whatever to your post. So in conclusion I will only add d:o)ug