Hello brave souls,

I am weathering this storm fairly well, but am intrigued by the painful learning process I have embarked upon.

Watching the prices decline in almost all my juniors, I, like most of you, am convinced this will not last long; however, I still don't have the psychological guts to buy more. It is as if someone sucker punched me and it has taken the wind out of me.

As Sitting Bull has rightfully advised, one must learn from this. In the present scenario, I am the problem, not the markets. The markets will do what they want, and my only protection from that is being free to do what I WANT, based on what I believe to be true.

In this way, maintaining a big-picture perspective and reviewing fundamentals can be likened to ducking the sucker punches. I am looking forward to learning to react (or not, as the case may be) in order to determine the outcome of my fight.

Good fighting to all of you and thanks for your thoughts...

stone