Nooooo, I was only pointing out that if you bought mining shares, which are in fact "paper" assets if you ask your ave card carrying gold or silver bug, you could have taken the next 5 years off from trading/holding/stacking "physical" as the returns you are "hoping" for were already achieved in this sector. And whenever this sector "deadcat" bounces, "paper" will outperform "physical" once again...during that purrtickler deadcat bounce. I was just stating facts. You guys n gals are going to believe what you want to believe.