Hello Coach,

Your assessment of the "outhouse board" mirror my sentiments exactly...I will never post on that forum again, its useless!

Glad to see you're here though, because I always enjoyed your informative postings, and have learned much about mining from you.

When my Alaskan brother first got me interested in PM stocks about 3 years ago, his advise was to read and learn from you on the SH forum....That was great advise!

I now have over 3/4 of my portfolio in commodities...mostly PM's and Energy stocks and funds investing in the same.

ECU has been a very tiring play to watch....I think it got into a trading range that has kept it at this $2.30 level way too long...We need some "new" News to project this stock to the next stage...where again it might level off, until ECU gets production back in the scheme of things....

I also got into ARU at an early stage, right after their initial "Bonanza" drills results came in....and have made it my prime investment, with progressive buys on the dips where possible...Its just hard to keep any "dry powder" around for as many of  the "scare" news reports of Ecuador's politics that have caused that stock to "hover" on a plateau of trading, but the New Year brings the mining laws to a climax soon, so that "bullet train leaves real soon I believe...

 Thanks again for the Education over the years....

  Long for Cash