To: ralfph who wrote (4541 ) 4/26/2003 4:37:22 PM From: marcos Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 8273 They're not mutually exclusive, the condition of having a two year old and that of having fifty years ... just because there's snow on the roof, doesn't mean there's no fire in the chimney -g- .... look at Pee-air, when he started his family, i could wait quite a few years and still have a head start on him .... it is possible that i have a minus x-months old, although hard to tell, my wife is currently at the house of her mother for Semana Santa, the phone in the village is very bad, she may have been reminding me to shave the cat, or something aqi.v - over the last few years i've looked at it several times, for the River Valley and Red Lake properties ... missed the Newmont property deal when it came out, this week i noticed CC hot on it, left instructions to pick up a few, no idea yet how that turned out, it wasn't for many anyhow .... got to study up ... i'm a bit leery of herd instinct though, when many of us get pointed in the same direction k.to - wow did Kinross ever tank friday ... i expected it to be soft, but not that soft ... it's these liquid ones that folks bail out of in hurry, playing them as PoG vehicles ... same with Wheaton, though arguably wrm is relatively less overvalued in a softer PoG .... but overall, just glancing at liquid producers versus illiquid juniors, the latter seem to have held up better last week[?] That was broker month-end, yesterday ... monday's trades start the new month ... don't know how significant that is now, with all the various system changes in later years, but it always used to be a big deal, as the houses had to straighten up the margin account bookkeeping for end of month, where the rest of the time they would sort of let you go, free rein, not worry about fine detail ..... although i don't know, hardly ever use margin anymore, outside of short term trades in winter, and of course the 'discount' houses keep everybody to the line quite mechanically wrm.wt.to - these puppies are headed back to the .40s ... heh heh, gotta love it, a dime on them net of commission is twenty per cent per round trip, do that twice a year only and they're a cash machine ... with a five year expiry, sure, but hey - five years