And you got leverage. It's just that, as Archmides might have explained, you're on the wrong end of the lever.

This phenomenon is not specific to junior stocks. The big boys can't seem to make buckets of money despite gold prices being up immensely over the past several years. And so the price performance of the Newmonts and Barricks of the world also seriously underperforms the price of the bullion.

I keep telling myself that our day is coming. I just hope I'm still alive to see it.