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Message:: [QUOTE="Pepperoni, post: 143768, member: 5520"]Yes Same man , many missed that the whole market was a float. It was Tulips all over again. He was dead on about oil but it came at a time when all were losing big. I remember I had a holding in GE , MRK ,CL,HDI. MHS,CVX,and afew others. All were sawed in two. What some missed, the run up with say 50k could take you up to 500k if you did your work. Lose half and you were still ok. The problem is in two years you got 6 or seven years of profits. The markets have really not moved since then and 9/11 and the rest. The division of assets are essential because if half pull one sits and one goes down you make a positive return if you work at it.I use Gold, common stock and realestate and cash to make my portfolio. I never expected two things, gold to go up 100% in a relatively short time, stocks to be a dart board game, the lid on realestate to come off and the best return I can get on Brokerage account money market is near 4%. The balance has worked, but wars come, OPEC is a Mafia and people who are zelots and hid behind legitmate religion are seeking nuclear weapons to use, not to deture .All that and we stand, but hard currency seems to be very much in vouge as a hedge. I hear of auctions in big numbers of top end coins ( A la Doug ) bring premium numbers. Hard getting off this box !Floyd[/QUOTE]