ZEEV, Again I have to disagree that buying Gold or PM (precious metal) stocks is in anyway like shorting the market. It is an entirely diferent animal:
I am delighted that you have NEM and I am sure you will do well with it-trading and/or holding it.
BTW how about some GG GLG PAAS or even KGC?
Not to mention the Canadian Explores that the folks over at some of the Silicon Investor threads are making so much money with. The most solid perhaps being MFL.TO or CBD.TO or ELD.TO