"I have been an optimist my whole life with some reservations at times but what I see today leaves me a pessimist and I don't like living my life this way and worst of all I see nothing to change the present course nor do I have much energy to devote to it."

Thank you for that observation GWR, because I and certainly many others here have gone through that process during the last 8-10 years. What a waste of time it has been to lose so much money (in my case) and on top of that receive negative energy on a continuous basis for such a long time. I wished (and I said this today to a friend of mine who is also invested in this pile of fraud called the market) that it was a pity that Jim Sinclair didn't warn me in 2002 for the dangers of the mining shares in the early stages of the market and instead stick to gold and silver. But then I realize, that for all his experiences in the seventies, Jim Sinclair also had to learn a lot of new things in today's market like 1) Naked short selling, 2) High Frequency Trading algorythms and 3) Regulators like the CFTC bought by the lobbyist and not enforcing anything on existing regulations.

So here we are, victims of abnormal abuse. Well, I have also learnt something else from Jim Sinclair and people like Eric de Groot and that is that if you stay the course in this market and don't bail out, you will ultimately reap the benefits of a return towards normal and more than normal market appreciations of the companies that have the goods. So I have long time ago decided to remain invested, not let the manipulation schemes affect my mood, but certainly be present when the remuneration arrives. Ofcourse I get affected emotionally, but I will also make sure that at the end of the day (15 years?) I will have what I wanted.

Consider this an entrepreneurial experience.

By the way, I appreciate very much what you have done, Deer: Informing and fighting.