(First time I didnt understand one of your posts   <g> )

Anyway, at 00:27 you said “those using e-trade to save a buck on trades……in my opinion should be looking elsewhere…..things seem to be unwinding…”.

Now, I dont have an account with e-trade, but I do have a discount trading account with TDWaterhouse which gives me trades at $9.99 a pop - a bit more expensive than e-trade which I think is $6.99 per trade.  I went with TDWaterhouse about a decade ago because in Canada they were the first to offer that service, and the first to get me off the very high commissions I had been paying at a so-called  ”full-service” for a quarter of a century before that.

So at 00:27 were you knocking anyone who has a trading account at one of the discount brokers?  Were you implying that they should join the real world and deal through a broker who you speak to?  I believe in the slow power of compounding.  I also believe in the slow power of saving commissions by going to an on-line trading system, so I dont knock the e-trade crowd who do the same.  I also believe in saving a few dollars monthly by willingly accepting my wife’s offer to trim the few remaining hairs above my neckline (although I dont get hot and timely investment tips from my wife with a clipper in her hand, like I would from the barber down the hill beside Scotiabank where I sometimes buy gold Maple Leafs).

Different strokes for different folks.  I’ll stick with TDWaterhouse, discount brokers, and get my investment clues not from a full-service broker but from reading information and opinion sources like Goldtent.   Cheers.  Equiz.