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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 261064, member: 4381&quot;]I was a little bit of a sly dog with regard to this.&nbsp; There just seems to be on this board waves of &quot;investment schemes&quot; and make money fast questions which sour me.&nbsp; I agree with you, I am a collector first, and money to be made doing this is besides the point. </p><p><br /></p><p>Mulling it opver for several days (or weeks), i thought to myself that it might actually be interesting to run this experiment and see if a few bucks can be made if one invests.&nbsp; But I&#039;m not interested in throwing $5000 into coins based on someones hairbrained idea of what might move up in the market.&nbsp; I would be willing to put a few dollars a month into an investment portfolio, maybe $50 bucks a month, if I was going to learn more about coins, and the process of evaluating them in terms of investment.&nbsp; So a nice small group, with no more than say 20 people, putting money together and meeting on line every month to evaluate suggested purchases and sales would be a worthwhile use of my time even if we never made a cent, or even lost money.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess it is a little like horse racing.&nbsp; The game is that much more interesting with a 2 dollar bet.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, I went out and posted the first thread.&nbsp; You can accuse me of trolling a bit, but I asure you that it was ment in good fun.&nbsp; I was suprised with the exent that it got attention, but obviously a lot of people are interested in the financial aspect of coin colllecting (either that or they care deeply about my poverty).&nbsp; It does bother me how spamlike these threads get.&nbsp; Every brother and sistah on this board thinks of themselves as some kind of investment banker.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But the means to uplifting the quality of discussion and information on cointalk with regard to the financial aspects of coin collecting is best overcome with education and experience.&nbsp; I believe in education, and I believe in power of learning by doing.&nbsp; So the idea of an investment club came to mind.&nbsp; Business students do this all the time.&nbsp; They play games and invest in real markets in order to learn how markets work and how to invest.&nbsp; So I believe that an investment club can benifit the coin talk membership in a big way.&nbsp; It should be a huge educational tool and a great deal of fun.&nbsp; Hopefully, if we get something off the ground, it will be in ***this *** spirit.&nbsp; If you want to invest in coins for your retirement, there are IRA&#039;s backed in gold.&nbsp; But if your interested in this as an adventure with some financial risk, I&#039;d be interested in starting something.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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