To: jackjc who wrote (12832 ) 6/7/2006 3:20:55 PM From: marcos Respond to of 78410 ktn.v - yes, watching Kootenay sort of, you posted on it last december ... don't have any yet, don't know why not aru.v - me neither, don't like to chase stuff, when they run that's the time to peel off shares, but - about a month ago just as i was thinking of Aurelian [only thinking! lol] i ran into a friend with whom i was working exactly ten years ago ... known the guy for many years and run into him all the time, still tend to associate him with aqp.v, because we were both into it then ... i did chase Arequipa, and never regretted it, even the first shares that were underwater for some time, that was such a busy year i never had time to worry about it, or even know - used to check day-before quotes in newspapers at fast-food places, if at all, got the saturday Globe and Mail, didn't always read that past the editorial and funnies .... so anyway, took running into the guy as a message from the sky, and picked up just nominal shares, beer money su.to - i had two or three winning swing trades years ago, so got hooked on playing it, same with fn.to for a while ... works out to cheap commissions by canuck standards, it's real liquid and fairly predictable, rarely leaves or changes its uptrend channels ... satisfies the compulsion to play with the little buy/sell buttons, but net net overall i'd have done better to just buy shares about early '95 when i started following, and forget about them cuu.v - will check 'old time wisdom' - well anybody can fake that after hanging around with old time wise guys, couldn't they -g- .... probably will be around more over the summer, getting a new computer next week [this one was bought with aqp profits] so shouldn't have to go out to check sedars and websites etc ... also should have some sort of office together here, got no private space now ... at the same time, when the weather is nice there's lots to do outside Speaking of old time wise guys, where's EC, he'll love this - 'Wang's group has not yet attempted to imprison a foreign atom in the hollow Au cages, but they plan to try.' - Message 22513333 wr.v - found that post in searching SI for 'wr.v', Watch Resources, a friend raves about it, 'next cll bla bla bla', well i don't know the oilpatch at all but know he does, so i'm in now ... lots of posts on it on SI, i see ... later ... cheers.