Stranger:

It would seem that your monicher is accurately descriptive. As in a "stranger" to market history and reality. Never in history has a market come off an exogenous shock as this one has had, reversed and gone up consistently in an unbroken fashion without major corrections. And that is true with the most stable and strongest of "blue chips". A description not exactly accurate with respect to Connacher.

Connacher not only remains sensitive to its performance in attaining production goals, but also to performance as to the totality of the Algar project, as well as the vagaries of the international and regional economy's, oil pricing, and markets in general. In light of the totality of these considerations, your ebullient enthusiasm seems a bit overly optimistic and naive. One current example of course is your much vaunted example of China which is now down 20% in one month. Bottom line nothing goes up forever in a straight line.

My approach is not one of unbridled pessimism but, rather one which combines a sense of market history and reality in order to avoid undue pain. Perhaps your nature of unrestrained cheer leading could use a modicum of such and a bit less arrogance!

Brian