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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stan_hughes who wrote (6605)	5/29/2005 10:44:14 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 8273

There are pessimistic traders that say that if you buy mining puts or short sell, that you will never be disappointed in the long run. To hedge you should own warrants on the stock. The odd one makes the big time, but before you lose too much it should be obvious. The brokerages make big money selling more mining issue than they own, all the while promoting it so that they can borrow more stock to sell. Only a run away winner long term can make a brokerage go broke. That is why they hate Cinderella discoveries so much and why few if any CDN brokerages have knowledgeable mining people on staff. Amazingly institutional money is not in short supply, and some brokers I know say they are busy like crazy despite the downturn in the metal explorationist's retail market. Go figure. EC<:-}