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To: TobagoJack who wrote (7058)	6/8/2006 6:38:12 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218800

For once I wish the Plunge Protection team is for real, their helicopters are standing by, and weapons can be free when desired. After you bought short funds? The PPT is real I think but it only buys treasury bonds. BTW FTSE is off its lows as are the US stock futures... might mean nothing of course.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (7058)	6/8/2006 9:16:33 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218800

The Iranians who got the Iraqi currency -during the Iraqi debacle- at next to zero are salivating!! Script is playing on! Message 21614591 Iran was seeing BRICs Brazil, Russia, China and India being talked as the next powers and no talk about Iran! Iran wants to be seen as a major power. There's no way to become relevant if the country is a paryah such as Iran. Iran will come out of the cold and will skyrocket upwards!!

To: TobagoJack who wrote (7058)	6/8/2006 10:33:49 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218800

A very good thing to remember is that when the US has the sniffles, the rest of the world gets bronchitis. Simple. Obvious. And true. And therefore so easy to get ready for. Carnage is not occurring, there is no red mist. What you see is the red flag of tremendous opportunities staring you in the face so smartly you have mistaken it for what it is not. Your chance, maybe, to turn the obscene profits you've made from that glittering, non-dividend paying thoroughly psychology-driven relic into something new now that things are on sale. There are literally dozens of terrific, well managed, cash-bloated debt-free American corporations which literally don't know what to do with their excess cash. From Microsoft to QUALCOMM to Cisco, their financial strength and creativity means that they are going to rule the future. And they're starting to go on sale. Catching the Canadian jihadis and taking out the Jordanian head hacker signals a psychological fork in the road for the better. Just look at what both events did to the prices of oil and gold. But not before we get rid of the sniffles. Gold is driven by sentiment, not cold hard calculations. Sentiment cannot be predicted. The value of cash-fat, debt free innovative corporations staffed by the best engineering talent in the world can be calculated. Act now! Time waits for no man. Disclosure: I bought KRY and held it for 2-3 days, then had a revelation--what am I doing with this stuff, waiting for the hammer to drop, as it always does on anything on which a mania is in place--so sold it toot sweet at a minimal profit. Wheew!

To: TobagoJack who wrote (7058)	6/8/2006 2:08:56 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218800

Problem is, the group is called the Plunge Protection Team, not the "Hedge Fund Profits Protection Team" or the Bear Market Control Team. I have cash, some bear funds, some CanRoys (Vermillion, Peyto, Advantage) which are sliding down, and some very small stocks which are well under expected future value and should have big upside events (GPXM, Mercator CA:ML) and some smaller pieces of some other stocks. So far I am down around 0.8% today. The bear market funds evaluate after the close. I don't like it, and I expect it to continue for anohter month more or less. I expect some of the small value stocks to move up when positive news comes out. I also think we may see some selecti ve buying in some segments before the general market stops dropping. That's why I am keeping my long positions.