Lucky...your perspective is from a long term long. Gump's isn't. Both legitimate. Both expect to make profits. As I, some really are here just for the short term play. The pinks and TSX are to the earlier days of the now big exchanges because they trade so thinly. An interesting read would be Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471059706/qid=1090344125/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/104-820670...