To: Clappy who wrote (1485 ) 2/2/2001 1:16:47 PM From: IngotWeTrust Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2402 Hi, Clappy!!! Glad you found me! I am same-o, same-o, but with a "kinder-gentler" modus operandi... Wanted to be consistent and cut down on the size of the spreadsheet which keeps track of all my chatroom names and passwords...was giving me a headache trying to keep them all straight. I'm:gold_tutor on eBay, goldtutor on Stockhouse (formerly Raging Bull), andgoldtutor@aol.com on AOL . RE: leverage in gold...yes your strategy has been a tried and true way to lvg the price of gold without doing naked call buying. When some of these golds trade at what a call option would be in the first place, then one way to look at them is as a "permanent call option on gold price movements." Alan Greenspan has adequately demonstrated his manipulative stance toward gold when acting in concert with other Central Bankers of the world. It is my educated opinion that this manipulation to the low end of a trading range --regardless as to whether the US$ is rising or falling-- has been "permitted/winked at/subscribed to for conveniences' sake" in order to get the EMU now renamed EURO launched, and also to give the Asian sector a chance to load up on gold prior to the launch of the AMU--Asian Monetary Unit, which is to be launched shortly. ALL of this forcing lower and reallocating CB hoards of gold into and out of US Bank hands and into and out of European and NOW Asian hands is the final leg of the old Bretton-Woods Currency Accord agreed to and signed off on immediately after WWII by some 38 nations in 1943 if memory serves. (and whatta memory, Clappy...since I wasn't born until '47) Anyhow...with Great Britain scheduled to sign on to the Euro platform in the next 20 months or so, I think that should signal the end of the disinformation campaign regarding gold. God knows we're still mining the stuff like there's no tomorrow (and I'm a he'ppin' bestest I can!!) and demand is and has been outstripping mined and recycled gold supply for almost 10 years now. Only when the BS from CB quits will we ever know if the campaign to "demonitize gold" has been successful. One key point to remember: Rothschild's BIS banking system is on the other side of all the gold short trades for all practical purposes. And when this EMU/AMU shifting around is done, the BIS WILL win. Their gold holdings is in the hundreds of trillions of dollars of physical...and everyone knows that "s/he who holds the gold MAKES the rules." Our long Gold days WILL come. And frankly, in the light of 18 years of concerted gold and gold price bashing, I'm going to be around for 2 more years before the ship rights itself and sits proper in the water again. At that time it will be TOO late to load the boat. So, acquiring "permanent call options" on gold via gold-equity purchases and holding on will pay off and handsomely. You DO have a time-horizon of longer than 20 months, right? O/49r now gold_tutor