Magic is a type of confidence trickery, but not all confidence tricksters are magicians. The difference is whether, when the magician pulls, the hat has got a real rabbit in it.

Minerals under the ground have something in common with rabbits; that’s to say, sometimes they are there – sometimes there’s only the illusion they are. Junior mining companies have this much in common with magicians – if they point a wand and recite a spell, they expect you to believe they can deliver at the minehead what you can’t otherwise see underground. The other difference is that on the stock exchanges,……………………………………………………………………

LINK:

http://www.businessinsider.com/prokhorov-and-finsky-try-their-magic-on-the-toronto-stock-exchange--is-intergeo-a-lucky-rabbit-or-is-nothing-there-2012-5