actually it was a live dream before I fell asleep, and in that dream I visualized and hoped that after the Bear Stearns/Citigroup/Merrill/JPMorgan schmozzles that are in the news right now there would someday no longer be any hedge funds, which these devious banking entities seemed to be good at incubating.
Then this morning I had a nightmare, and it too was a live nightmare because it occurred after I was awake. In that nightmare I came to the realization that because we now live in a world of computerized trading (some analysts call it black-box trading) we are going to have hedge funds with us perhaps forever - or at least until terrorists bring our electronic world of trading and commercial transactions to a temporary halt.
I did not like the outlook of my morning nightmare because hedge fund trading in the past year or so has really screwed us around in some of our family’s PM-related and energy-related equity and warrant investments. Consequently, I am getting more serious about fiat purchase of physical silver and gold, with direct ownership, possession and storage of the acquired physical assets, free of the hedge-fund influences, and just leave the hedge funds to have their fun with the remaining participants in the precious metals/energy/uranium world of equities.
I am all ears for opposing or supporting opinions about the thoughts above. Wishing all a pleasant weekend. Equiz.