There is no doubt that when the second leg of the stock market crash comes gold stocks are likely to get hammered along with everything else. Ultimately they should be a leveraged play (think Homestakes Mining in the Depression Era). My plan was to make the paper profits in stocks and then sock away some of the hefty profits in gold bullion. That's a laugh. I don't think the dollar will be the safe haven play that it was last summer\fall. Then again....what difference does it make WHAT gold does as long as we are sitting here with our thumb up our @$$.