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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (4521)	4/16/2004 3:43:47 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

CBs are expected to have ethics?? that's a new one ... biz.yahoo.com German Central Banker Quits Over Ethics

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (4521)	4/16/2004 6:18:59 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

That's the way I feel about common stocks now. ("you have to sell them short from time to time") Ten years ago if anyone had said I would feel that way I would have said they were out of their minds. Well, I think we are in a period when buy and hold is the better strategy for commodities. Of course that is never true if you are actually buying futures contracts. But having discovered that I am among the 95% of people who lose money on commodity futures and not the 5% who win, I don't do the contracts myself. EDIT: Some people say that 100% of speculators who buy commodities futures lose 100% of their money. I didn't lose 100%. I just lost about 50% of all my investible funds (sixteen years ago).