RE:RE:RE:???Totally respect your opinion and no hard feelings here. These boards are for discussion and to have everyone express their opinions. I do know for a fact that several bank owned investment firms are going to be given restrictions on the investments they allow their investment advisors to purchase for their clients. Their compliance departments are really putting the hammer down on NOT allowing the purchase of venture exchange traded stocks. And for what it is worth, I have held CVX for about 9 years now. If that isn't long term, I want to know how long term is.