Who really cares! If 100,000 monkeys (Analysts) offered their "best effort" predictions on anything (markets) a few will be spot on! From that perspective they can then claim to be "experts" selling their successful perspective through various avenues (news letters etc!) to a new (and old) parade of confused (very confused in most cases because they are no more knowledgeable than than the afore-mentioned monkeys!) investors!

If anyone in the immediate audience could even predict the next 5 minutes he/she wouldn't be here trying to meat out a few dollars on the markets, he/she would be playing out the life of a benifactor with so much wealth they couldn't spend it in one lifetime let alone worry about the most recent turn (Manipulation) of gold prices!

In spite of what some of our genii (one in particular!) on this board would have you believe we (investors) are at the "jeopardy of circumstance" unless acting on inside info which, unfortunately is only available to a select few.

Our "hope" is "serendipity" (a 43-101 in Jan of 5mm ozs!) while we live day to day on the "fecundity of the unexpected!" (which from here would include a gold price far in excess of recent highs! Some "analysts" have suggested anywhere between $2500 and $10,000 per oz.)

If that comes to pass your darts will make decisions easy and orders for O'Day (sailboats) will skyrocket! (you'll have to spend the profits on something!)

Keep your eye on the ball!

RUF