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Pastimes : Clown-Free Zone... sorry, no clowns allowed -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (376026)	10/9/2008 5:33:17 PM
From: mikereid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

OK. :) SI is giving away 1 month intro subs now, so here I am... May I introduce myself ? I've been reading the Clown threads, and other goodies like Mike Burke's thread off and on over the years since the late 90's/early 2000s. Y'all crack me up ! :) In a good way... I'm looking to invest my kids education money, about $20k Canadian in something reasonably conservative, yet aggressive enough for their ages of 3 & 6. I lost WAY too much money in 98,99,00 buying poots on garbage that has either since gone BK or withered so much I could have made decent dough on shorts if I held for a few years. Also lost on long mining stocks and an Internet gambling company that got raided by RCMP (SNMM, cough, cough). Even my butterfly spread on a Canadian blue-chip went south on me ! So, umm, I take full responsibility for my decisions but would appreciate thoughts on whether I should wait for Dow 7k, or the 2nd bottom of a double bottom before jumping in for a 13-20 year education investment. Or just direct me to a nice thread if this is too clown-ish or not clown-ish enough... What about silver or palladium, physical or mining stock ? North American Palladium PDL.TO has long been on my radar. (Oh, if only I had kept all those gold stocks I bought in 2000... :( ) Maybe I should just re-read that crash book I bought in 2002 written by that Elliot Wave guy, Prechter.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (376026)	10/9/2008 6:01:51 PM
From: NucTrader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Well, you're right I'm sure. But a lot of people were talking about 8900-9000 being a firm support level. Life a knife through butter...