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To: yard_man who wrote (40096)	6/10/2006 12:19:01 PM
From: RonMerks	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 60908

aka, you said - 'I have some shares which I will not sell until longer term targets are reached -- I do believe we are in a long term bull. YOu can call that foolhardy if you want. I didn't just start this yesterday -- and while some of my gains which happened in the last 4-6 weeks of the last run have been dented, there are stocks I am not selling.' First, I really am not trying to be an a-hole here, but in all honesty; you guys really, really do sound like gamblers. Youre all eternally seeking the big lotto payoff from gold. Look at the level of frantic in and out trading that nearly everyone posting here has been doing! - it's degenerate gambling, nothing else. Every day is a new "race." Trust me people, I have counselled gambling addicts for over 14 years now and I can smell you a mile away. I bet many of you have dramaticaly lowered your performance and productivy at work because of your stock trading addictions. Many of you probably are already pressured from your spouses over the time you spend online, tell me Im wrong. Ive not read any broad picture analysis from anyone here that hasnt changed every 24 hours as the direction of gold prices change. Thats a sickness people. And if you call yourself a trader and are still holding stocks after this smash up in gold and silver stocks, what kind of trader is that ? Why didnt you already sell long ago and why arent you all calmly and confidently buying hand over fist here; instead of dancing in and out every 20 minutes? The one thing that I can not find here - is confidence. You guys are as weak kneed as a 15 year old asking out his first prom date. You have no more confidence in gold than you do yourselfs, let alone what direction its going. At least I'm honest with myself. This is money I can totally afford to lose and not lose a wink of sleep over. The way I term the reason why I buy gold and silver is this - it's a double dose of insurance with a speculative chaser and I usually slowly average in over time. I came here to get a flavor for the trading side of gold, but after following these bulletin boards for nearly a year, its quite obvious to me that you so called 'expert traders' are no better at 'market timing' for gold, than me, or Paul Van Eeden and we SUCK ! Why dont you guys just put 10-20% in to gold, or silver every 10-20% down and dollar cost average. The lesson I've learned here is one I already know. That simple dollar cost averaging in over time will beat all of you. Call me simple-Ron, but you so-called traders have proven one thing for sure over this crash in gold. You are clueless. All this in, out, in out in out in out stuff - is childish. Worse than that- you hedge everything you say, so you wont be wrong when your wrong - which is what you nearly always are - wrong. If gold is cheap and is going higher - BUY IT. Average in slowly over time and wait. Thats what I do. And I'd bet a $50,000 stake horse that I end up beating 75% of you so called traders who have made complete fools of yourselfs during this gold crash. Respectfuly Ron