Your welcome rookie...i hope none of us is going down......the gold price seems to be tracking sideways since October..between around 1350 and 1400...the drop from 1420 in late Dec. to now around 1360 and perhaps the fear of breaking below 1350 and lower has been the biggest factor affecting SGR and other PM sp's IMO... I am not a gold bug nor have i any great insight into the future price other than what i read from others...and it appears that the price will continue higher despite the odd pullback...the fraud and manipulation you refer to has not been able to halt the advance in price since about 2001 so i think that is not the biggest constraint on higher prices...