thank you to all three of you. Klaus i guess i missed my wording a bit because im not looking to buy for a month or two (due to the helpful discusions on here in the last few weeks and dinner with one of its members.) Im currently sitting on 35% cash as i sold last week and will probable be up to 50% by the end of this week. im looking for companies to put in a watchlist to hopefully scoop up at a discount in a few months. the ones im looking to scoop up in precious metals are EDV, NDM and FCO (rare earth). But thanks to the posts i have a few agricultural and oil plays to watch as well and look into when i go shopping for spring:p