Skol is a chump. He takes the high point of gold in 2011 and then assumes everyone bought at this price. If you watch the market, rather than relying on historic graphs, you would have realised that buying gold at the beginning of the year made sense,and so it has proved. If you had bought Westpac or Deusche Bank at its peak, they would be terrible investments as well. I have invited Skol to post a chart of the NST share price over the last five years, he won't because it is a positive for gold. We are all labelled goldbugs. I venture to suggest that the people who left the forum got bored of repetitive claptrap posts that get zero upvotes.