Article in today's W/E Australian, page-8

I agree totally tobyjack.

If even the best Siberian minds find it difficult to analyse the graphite market, what hope does an average investor who may have a little experience across a wide range of sectors and industries, have?

It IS too fiddly to try and work out all the permutations and combinations. For my limited intellect at least. It is stressful being a long term holder of a heavily manipulated and traded stock, which jumps around from 14c (thanks for those recently!) to 90c.

As they say on Dragon's Den, "and for those reasons, I'm out" (other than picking obvious lows and trading the hype).

There are plenty of easier to understand markets, mining companies with black and white generic products with established and increasing demand.

For example, an associated market - what else goes in batteries, that doesn't rely so much on flake size, purity etc? Products with expected shortfalls in supply and exponential growth in demand?

Happy researching and investing folks.