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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SD51555, post: 2053506, member: 71871&quot;]It&#039;s pop culture.&nbsp; Crowds follow fads, and then fads die.&nbsp; I got a friend into bullion investing and he went bonkers spending half his income per month thinking he was gonna triple it all and buy a farm.&nbsp; I urged him to slow down and pace himself, but he was hell bent on getting in before it shot to the moon.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I can tell you I&#039;ve haven&#039;t made a penny of realized or unrealized profit on my bullion.&nbsp; I rode the bus up and down, and then down again.&nbsp; Then after that happened I rode the rocket into the abyss we&#039;re in today.&nbsp; But I&#039;m one of the die hards.&nbsp; I&#039;ll be watching bullion after the tv and radio commercials quit and we go back to weiner pills, vitamins, and weight loss drugs.&nbsp; D-I-N-O-V-I-T-E dot com!</p><p><br /></p><p>This always happens.&nbsp; Take a look at the prepping mania outside of bullion.&nbsp; The food/water/bunker fad has completely fizzled out already.&nbsp; The gun mania after November 2008, and again after sandy hook.&nbsp; The ammo mania.&nbsp; Make money flipping houses.&nbsp; Sodastream.&nbsp; Yoga pants.&nbsp; The crowd is always chasing the shiny object or dangling keys.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Saltysam also makes a great point.&nbsp; It&#039;s hard to come in and lay down more predictions when nearly everyone has been wrong all the way along.&nbsp; Has anyone predicted a short term sideways market like we&#039;re in now?&nbsp; I finally got smart when I realized I didn&#039;t know jack about which way the markets were going.&nbsp; I also think credible news and data don&#039;t exist in bullion and mining like it does in stocks.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m with ya.&nbsp; I&#039;m starving for some intellectual back and forth.&nbsp; I posed some ideas on platinum and a three way asset allocation strategy between gold silver and platinum.&nbsp; Didn&#039;t get hardly any hits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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