I have been counting on gold doing something. With the delcine in the dollar, the budget excesses, the balance of payments, the housing debacle, military spending, etc., I thought gold would move big time. It has been in neutral since March of 2006 (up/down/up/down)...If things go bad, surely gold will have to step up to the plate as something that does hold or increase in value. Things are messy at the moment. Big learning experiences coming into play in this world of mountains of capital investment and computer facilitation of making the "plays".