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To: UnderTheRadar who wrote (11448)	9/5/2008 9:17:52 AM
From: SliderOnTheBlack	7 Recommendations Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 50749

re: ["ask Slider when he is comeing out from under his desk to face the heat he generated by speaking of Palin."] Heat? You call that heat? Heat is still riding half of your gold stock puts all the way down from HUI 470, looking at 10 baggers+, along with those Nat Gas shorts, and having to decide whether to cash them out, and cherry pick some juniors and explorers as they are getting puked up from margin calls and by the permabull funds... How to spend all the damn money? That's heat. And funny you should mention "desk." Actually I'm having my home office overlooking the pristine shore of Lake Michigan remodeled. Had to open up a wall and take out a window to get a new handmade 120" L x 54" W desk into the room. It's a monster, and it would make a great place to hide. (Where was Tim when I needed him?) I had to put in a set of double doors to accommodate the new desk. So now I have the room on my desk for a 3-monitor/flat screen trading set up, where I don't have to spin around (away from the view of the lake) to my credenza behind my desk to monitor my screens. And the best part? All bought and paid for by shorting the Dow, Gold Stocks, and Natural Gas over the last couple of months. Now I can trade, watch Bubblevision, and enjoy the view along the beach (and what a view it is, and I'm not talking about the sand, or the water) all without having to continually spin backwards to my credenza. And talking about "spinning backwards"? Kinda sounds like the Obama-Biden campaign right now, doesn't it <vbg>? Anyway... the darkside, which has been the rightside, has been very, very good to me. And that's another key trading mindset.... Being on the rightside of a trade regardless of whether than means being long, or short. I believe that a bull, a real bull, not a permabull (two different breeds), MUST trade both long, and short. And the reason why trading short is a must for a real bull? Number one, because it's half of the game. And number two, because it's the highest reward:lowest risk way to take advantage of both discrepancies between price and risk, and mistakes being made by the enemy. More later on gold, but for now, concerning the political discussion here on this thread... and the nutballs it's pulled from of the outer rings of the SI orbit, along with the whipsawed permabulls with endless screen names and margin-call pain... I'm going to put a lid on the political debate at 10:00 a.m. EST tomorrow. So if you have anything else of substance to add, please do so... but, be mindful of the cutoff tomorrow at 10 a.m. And of course... I will have the last word. So it was written... so it shall be done. S.O.T.B. PS: Anyone know what the maximum campaign contribution an individual can make is? I've got check sitting on my desk made payable to McCain Palin... and I need some help in filling in the numbers. Is it $2,300? And what about employees? I have an interest in a couple of business, can my employees choose to make equal donations from bonuses I grant them, if they choose to do so? Any thoughts on how to structure this legally? And yes Ron, if there was a Paul - Walker ticket, I'd be supporting it, and writing that check. But, there's not.