started in investing during the gold boom mid 90s.  great times, but, got ahead of myself and lost it all back when sentiments broke down with gold dropping and bre-x happening.  then came tech bubble, miners going tech in rtos after which came the commodities boom and bust thru the financial collapse and rise and fall of certain world economies.  loads of dollars made amongst the losses too as many companies came and went.  been around the block so many times that to know better yet greed and fear albeit hard to control, thru readings at local chapters trying best to learn about myself, emotional behaviour investing, got to have a market thesis, trading style and know yourself about the markets these days to invest properly hoping the gains are bigger than losses and you've learnt many lessons along the way.  try to go non resources, divs preferred albeit still dealing with small caps, mostly in energy and mining still.  know well how the promotional styles go on the forums and for companies that seem to have 9 lives to even care what their flavour of the day is.  gl to all, investing and speculating....to each is his own way when it comes to the markets.  :)

PS.  How to prosper from spam, LOL!!!!!  so how goes the latest drivel in machine crushers and online tv?  How many emails out there are spam?  Talk about so much bandwidth taken up by spam all over the interent!!!!  LOL!!!!!

cheers,

dave.