jaxwhitey, If you like GLD, you should have chosen DGP. It is double GLD. In other words if GLD is up 5%. DGP will be up roughly 10%. Check them out on a chart. They move in unison.
I hear you, Hold Em. The US economy is getting worse and worse by the second, being led by perhaps the most socialistic president of all time-----Barack Obama.
There is no light at the end of the tunnel whatsoever---none at all.
We are all doomed.
And Lear (LEA) is going right straight to zero point zero.
got a final total, walls? I can't believe someone didn't beat my LVS play considering a 14.94 Dec 31st close isn't even a triple from the 5.90 buy in.
gotta be SOME "penny play" that beat that 
btw, under the heading of "the one that got away", check SNIC. bugger was just under $2 beginning of last year, hit a low of 0.57 on march 9th (the day of the low for the overall market) and had a recent Dec24th high of 12.90 before setteling @ 11.79 Dec 31st.
just goes to show that IF a small cap comes up with a "killer app" or develops some "miracle drug", they can go NUTS!!! 
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