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To: Graystone who wrote (11071)	7/25/2004 3:33:40 AM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12810

Junk A community is in some ways defined by it's extremes, extreme investing is always a possibility, tourism in Iraq, total control of physical gold, the lost treasures of the Third Reich, the Pink Sheets. SI is an endless source of possibilities, some have little relevance when you are an investor, it wouldn't be polite to point out flatly that certain opinions are irrelevant, so I won't. The quality of any investment should start out with a very general assessment of risk/reward and the same can be said of any investment in the ideas expressed by community members, many of them are worthless to the average investor. There are not many good tools to measure the risk/reward ratio present when you invest in a community member. A bad investment, whether in the stock market or a community member, is a bad investment. It is getting easier and easier to make bad investments and the tactics being used to ensnare new investors are becoming far more complex, it is your trust that is at stake, and your money. If you find a hump in today's well worn landscape you can be sure that hump has been stumbled over before and you can be sure that the hump's purpose in sticking out is not intended to enrich you in any way. Another thing that you may not realize when you run into humps are that the humps are interconnected, if you whack one hump, another will certainly pop out. Look around just a little and you can see puppets dancing in groups, the nicely dressed puppets gyrate just as obscenely as the plain ones, wooden dolls like nesting tables, each fitted to the other in ever less objectionable sequence, all junk.