"I just saw this light today. I have been waiting for the "year of the Juniors" for too long now. If it means anything, I see a decoupling of the gold stocks from the general market this morning plain as day, and i keep saying to myself: Majors, producers, exployers, juniors over and over again."

One new factor I'm noticing, and one that didn't exist in 2002-2003 when the majors made a big move, is the existence of GLD and other gold bullion ETFs. Back then, if you wanted exposure to gold without having to worry about storage, liquidty etc, then gold stocks was the place to go. Now a lot of that demand is being siphoned off to ETF's like GLD.

Our time will come though. And on the bright side there are stock ETF's like GDX, SIL and even GDXJ for juniors that make it easy for a novice to grab a basket of stocks in the sector.