To: koan who wrote (21357 ) 9/18/2006 3:10:32 PM From: marcos Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 78403 sml.v - news out, Stealth reacquires 100% interest in Toodoggone properties, pays cdn500k to Goldcorp ... insiders are committed here, got their own money on the line, there will come much more to this story and it will get some strong bids by spring, imho Those were the days ... i actually developed [or re-developed] an interest in canadian chartered banks in that '87 crash ... was working with a guy who dropped everything, went to the broker's, and bought among others cm.to right at the low, he had made out like a bandit by two weeks on ... so i kept an eye on them and held some for various periods, then in '95-'96 kept buying, ended up with the entire proceeds from two land sales spread between five bank tickers - the last one the day after AG's 'irrational exhuberance' speech, 06.12.96, i put the bids in through Telemax the night before, ended up getting stock way cheaper, ten per cent below my bids roughly ... lol, that was great, by Christmas i was getting giddy and used margin to almost double up ... probably had over 100% of net worth on the line at times, scarey, never before had so much in the market ... got an overall double by '98 when there was talk of bank mergers, got cdn50 for td.to, for which i had paid 22 or something, average Don't wanna talk about golds in that time, after Arequipa it was all downhill, bxm and the gold bear did us all in ... and i kept averaging down on wim.to, aargh ... they had Jacobina, Bjorkdal, and Velardeña, all of which are being mined now by others .... <sigh> sgm.v - they have twenty more holes coming .... plus the three factors most critical to real estate, i think they'll catch bids ... loonie by spring, quite possibly by Christmas, imho [oops, that's a target and a date too, broke the rule, lol]