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Paul

There will be growth in the spring...

About Me

I spent many years as an IT guy. Now I work for myself, mostly investing but I also do some trading. For the past few years I have been focused almost exclusively on natural resources: precious metals, base metals and energy. I expect that to continue to be the case for several more years.

I have found that some of the best message boards for natural resources investors are hosted at Silicon Investor. I've been posting there for almost 10 years and have made some good friends and learned a lot over the years. The Woodshed is my home base, but there are several very good boards there.

Send me a note to say hello, or check out my blog if you want to read my mind!

My Interests

Family, friends, food and fun.

I'd like to meet:

I'm interested in meeting and comparing notes with other investors, traders and students of the market.

Music:

311, Aimee Mann, Alice In Chains, Alicia Keys, Ani DiFranco, Animal Logic, Bebel Gilberto, Bill Frisell, Bob Marley, Bonnie Raitt, Charlie Parker, The Clash, Cold Water Flat, Humble Pie, Liz Phair, Lucinda Williams, Pat Metheny, Morningwood, Liz Phair, Gang of Four, Liz Phair, Cowboy Junkies, Dave Matthews, Diana Krall, Elvis Costello, The Doors, Tribe, Eric Clapton, Flora Purim, Chick Corea, Weather Report, Miles Davis, Foo Fighters, Garbage, Gato Barbieri, Gwen Stefani, Hole, Sheryl Crow, Jane's Addiction, Jane Siberry, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Jackson, Joe Satriani, Joni Mitchell, Juliana Hatfield, Laurie Anderson, Luscious Jackson, Neil Young, Paula Cole, Peter Gabriel, Peter Frampton, R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers, Roxy Music, Santana, Sarah McLachlan, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Smashing Pumpkins, Stereolab, Stiff Little Fingers, Suzanne Vega, Talking Heads, U2, Veruca Salt, Zero 7

Television:

Who needs TV when you have the Internet?

Books:

"The Coming Collapse of the Dollar" by James Turk
"Twilight in the Desert" by Matt Simmons
"The Exception to the Rulers" by Amy Goodman
"The Power of Intention" by Wayne Dyer
"Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" by Edwin LeFevre

Heroes:

Wayne Dyer, Catherine Austin Fitts, Don Coxe...to name a few.

My Blog

New blog entries at blogspot...

New blog entries are at:The Slow Lane
Posted by Paul on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:27:00 PST

Blogging over here now...

The Slow Lane
Posted by Paul on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:54:00 PST

Time to get back to work...

Summer is going into the final innings so it's time to get out of the lounge chair and back to the salt mines.  While the precious metals and related stocks took the summer off, for the most part...
Posted by Paul on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:36:00 PST

Return of the Monster Holes!

What?  So soon?  Oh yeah...      ...
Posted by Paul on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:30:00 PST

Monster Holes

On Friday, Aurelian Resources released news that drove the stock up almost 100% by the close.  This is the second time recently where the stock has seen a huge move, the first being in early Apri...
Posted by Paul on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 07:10:00 PST

Oil sands...

  As I reviewed my charts today, I noticed that Canadian Oil Sands Trust looks like it is ready to go again.  The weekly chart below shows that the 25 EMA has been support in the past and lo...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 08:08:00 PST

Notes from the NYC Hard Assets Conference May 15-16, 2006

Hard Assets Conference 2006 New York City May 15-16, 2006        Lawrence Roulston Resource Opportunities newsletter   LR travels all over the world in the course of doing his...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 26 May 2006 06:30:00 PST

Copper (again)...

Here is an excerpt from a current article by Adam Hamilton on copper stocks:"While I'm a mere mortal and cannot see the future, it does look like the odds favor a lot of big institutional interest in ...
Posted by Paul on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 05:57:00 PST

The Next Mania...

Will Junior Miners Rival Dot.com's (Mineweb)Research published Tuesday by a New York-based international economic consulting firm declared that a major paradigm shift has occurred in the attitudes o...
Posted by Paul on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 05:29:00 PST

Investors and Traders

Some discussion from Justice Little, taken from a recent article for The Daily Reckoning:   The investor's key trait is patience, defined by some as "the art of waiting without tiring of waiting....
Posted by Paul on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:46:00 PST