Gugaplex,
I take your point. Nasdaq stocks are more widely held than gold. Gold is different and I suspect it will not be plastered all over the news until there is a financial (I mean debt related) or currency crisis (e.g. dollar collapse). In the mean time I expect gold will gain more...
Gugaplex,
I think the word "bubble" is banded about far too much these days. Everything that moves up in a strong trend is described by the media as a "bubble". I just don't go along with that. Gold is in a bull market for sure, but when I think of a bubble, I think of Nasdaq in 2000. Everyone...
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I took the opportunity to talk to a couple of programmers at work. Both said that VB was far easier to learn than Java. One commented that it was easier to debug too, but I guess a lot of that depends on what your used to, and I have no doubt others would disagree.
adrianallen99
I would be interested to know if you had a stop in place, and if not did you leave your screen unattended or did you watch your position move away from you?