To: RonMerks who wrote (2471 ) 9/26/2006 6:36:37 AM From: SliderOnTheBlack Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 50175 ...............Silver & Gold recap: Ron -- just for you: How about a Sunday night smackdown? A state of the metals recap, forensic analysis of why we're where we are... where we're going...and why. Lot's of charts. Not the crystal ball hoo-doo-voo-doo variety, but a backward look of what & why...and a peek behind the opportunity radar. --Sunday night -- be there. Re: Short Natural Gas/XNG E&P stocks. September puts have been berry, berry good to me. For the hyper-manic tic-traders...expect the fundies to put a little lipstick on the pig in the next couple of days -- to window dress their end of the quarter statements. We may see a little blip thru the end of the week...but, then revert back to rollover for the first part of October to at least the XNG 380-385 level....maybe XNG 365ish. If you listened and used puts - Aug, Sept, October will have been berry, berry, good for you too. Pigs get Fat, but Hogs get slaughtered... don't get greedy because -- "Gas Vegas" will humble you in both directions. We reached a very attractive Risk:Reward - discrepancy between price and risk for going short the XNG/Nat Gas E&P stocks versus Natural gas itself...and its paying off in spades. The stocks had to come down to reflect the collapse in natural gas prices. I'm neither a bull, or bear...and most importantly -- I'm "perma-neutral"... Money is made in both directions and it's often made faster and easier -- with less risk; on the short-side. And it just was -- all across the commodity spectrum. For the 327th time... "straddles" are a virtual no-brainer in this environment -- collect in both directions. I'll probably throw on some "calls" at the bottom of my E&P shorts, but probably in Nat Gas itself...as Gas is bound to get a little bounce here in late Oct-November. ....rinse, wash and repeat."Pigeons Flock, but Eagles fly alone." Later, SOTB` Go Irish! PS: bwah, bwah, bwah Mark Sexton...it's always the fundamentals on the way up...and dirty rotten scoundrels on the way down. WRONG... it's Newton's Law of Speculation:"What speculators drive up -- must come down... when, not if." Gravity!