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To: Madharry who wrote (42565)	5/8/2011 12:35:38 PM
From: Spekulatius	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78752

re Silver - it's all relative, imo. I am actually surprised that the margin requirements are as low as they are (7.43% of nominaL!) , even after the exchanges raised them. It looks like that raising the margin was more an excuse for decline in silver that the real cause. it's either that or the players are extremely high leveraged. Soros, it seems has reversed directions too and sold out or is even short gold. Maybe his back was starting to hurt again <g>. >> Even with the higher margin requirements, silver futures contracts allow a trader to make a highly leveraged investment. One silver futures contract is for 5,000 ounces worth $218,050 at yesterday's closing London Fix Price. The new higher margin requirement of $16,200 represent only 7.43% of the value of one silver futures contract. goldandsilverblog.com only 7.43% of the value of one silver futures contract <<.

To: Madharry who wrote (42565)	5/8/2011 6:24:23 PM
From: Paul Senior	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78752

Madharry, I separate stocks into various categories (defense, industrial, retail, utility, automotive, healthcare, Bakken, Cardium, bond/mlp, etc.) then I roughly cross multiply the shares I hold in each of these sectors by their respective stock prices to get a $ amount that the sector represents in my overall holdings. It's a very rough guesstimate the way I do it, but seems suitable for me for ranking purposes.

To: Madharry who wrote (42565)	10/31/2011 12:21:34 PM
From: Madharry	Respond to of 78752

I see that MF global just filed for bankruptcy. another financial intermediary run by an ex hot shot bites the dust taking unwary investors with them. I think we see that time and again this is like the story of the money guy with no experience goes into business with a partner who has industry experience but not money. after a couple of years the investor has the experience and the experience partner has the money! FWIW my technical system would have said to bail on this one at about $7.30. it turned bullish on the the market friday a week ago and is still bullish.