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To: Ditchdigger who wrote (10353)	11/9/2011 6:44:35 PM
From: chowder	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34328

Ditch, compared to the market, the MLP's I own are rocking this year. I own EPD, KMP and MMP. I compared them to AMLP and the S&P 500. According to the comparison chart I'm linking below, the MLP's listed above are up between 12% and 15% year to date, while AMLP is up just 2% and the S&P 500 is negative on the year. If anyone wants to see the comparison, just below the chart there is a sliding bar that will say 200 days. Put your cursor on that bar and right click your mouse. A window will open and you can click on year to date to get your comparisons. stockcharts.com I don't know if the comparison chart includes distributions or not. I'm going to go back and check to verify, but I thought this comparison chart was interesting. EDIT UPDATE ... EPD up 12.0% ytd KMP up 12.1% ytd MMP up 14.4% ytd AMLP up 1.9% ytd S&P down 2.3% ytd These numbers do not include distributions, and if one is reinvesting the distributions, EPD also provides an additional 5% discount on the share price for the reinvested shares.