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Strategies & Market Trends : Strictly: Drilling II -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frank Pembleton who wrote (3090)	10/22/2001 5:09:55 PM
From: SliderOnTheBlack	Respond to of 36161

["But if oil starts acting anything like gold, you might be better off holding cash -- or looking into natural gas weighted companies "] ...some of us did catch "THE TURN" in Oils; but Gold hasn't "acted" too badly...better than most realize actually - ie: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Last 100 days: HUI/unhedged golds ....- 2% S&P 500.................- 16% DOW ....................- 17% XNG/Nat Gas.............- 20% Nasdq .................. -26% OSX/oilpatch ........... -46% siliconinvestor.com xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Last 52 weeks: HUI/unhedged golds ... +72% --- "still" NOT TOO DAMN BAD (vbg)~ XNG/nat gas ........... -8% DOW ...................- 13% S&P....................- 20% OSX ...................- 36% Nasdq .................-44% siliconinvestor.com xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Here's from approx Sept 11ish to date: HUI +1 % XNG - 2% S&P - 5% DOW - 5% OSX - 7% Nasdq- 8% Gold still the only positive subsector fwiw.... siliconinvestor.com ...sometimes perceptions don't quite jive with reality. BOTTOMLINE: Gold has still outperformed the market on a 52 week, 100 day & 30 day basis...whodathunkit ?