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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1039950, member: 3011&quot;]Collector, I stand by my statement that your comments to an investment beginner are irresponsible and wrong.&nbsp; Stocks represent the partial ownership of businesses, and the dividends plus reinvestment of capital offer advantages that gold cannot.&nbsp; Gold has a time and place, as the last decade and next year or two demonstrate.&nbsp; Stocks offer a lifetime of wealth-building opportunities.&nbsp; Gold is a bad holding about 75% of the time.&nbsp; I&#039;m sorry that you and your grandfather were burned by buying heavily leveraged stocks of companies with no competitive advantage and insecure dividends.&nbsp; No individual investor with even a minor amount of training would have owned any company you mentioned [except perhaps a trader using technical analysis with appropriate loss control].&nbsp; It is very easy to avoid this sort of problem by learning to read a financial statement.&nbsp; You and your grandfather may be just about the only people who started investing in the stock market and haven&#039;t made any money and/or bought all losers.&nbsp; But my point isn&#039;t to convince you.&nbsp; I know that can&#039;t be done.&nbsp; I only want to help prevent you from misleading others.&nbsp; Anyway, you can have the last word and try to talk the young folks here out of making what could turn out to be the best investment of their lifetimes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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