RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Decisions, decisions...Nice post Chizzles. In actuality, based upon your comments, you may be one of the more sophisticated investors on this board. I don't think there are any experts on this board. Simply a group of people trying to exchange thoughts and ideas. Given that, what seems important than is to try and separate what appear to be reasoned and factually supportable posts from those that simply personally bash, pump, or push yellow jounalism. "Evidence" cited by bashers and pumpers to support their posts seems to range from out right factual mischaracterizations, to half truths, to gross exaggerations. The one common denominator of the basher/pumper though seems to be that events are always outrageously characterized as far better or worse than they really are, or turn out to be. When stock prices drop, the bashers come out in droves about how the stock will go to zero. When prices are rising, out come the pumpers quick to project that the stock will go to the moon. How many times have you heard both of these predictions since you have watching this board over the last 5 years? As you know, none of these projections have proven accurate. In the last 5 years, the stock has traded at a low of .05 in 2009 to a high of .55 cents in 2011, with a frequent .10 to .40 range. Price variation on the stock over that 5 year period has always appeared principally based on whether, and, if so to what extent, the company gets financing to develop its tungsten mine, and that remains the issue today. Although not quite this black and white, it is generally projected that if the financing comes through, the stock will probably do well in the long run. If no financing occurs, an opposite result will likely occur. I'm not sure there is much more to it, at least for now.
I think most people who have spent any significant time on this board readily ignore or differentiate the reasoned posts from those of the pumpers, bashers, and dreamers. However, my concern is for the absolute novice investor who happens to come on this unregulated board and actually relies to his or her great financial detriment on some of the utterly unsupportable mischaracterizations, mistatements, and exaggerations that are sometimes posted. For that purpose, I just hope that everyone who reads posts on this board carefully weighs and scrutinizes the content of each post to separate the fact from the fiction and does their own investigation ("due dilgence") before they make investment decisions. Good luck to all longs. Seg.