Dharma: I suspect you can read the news just as well as almost anyone around these parts to know if the miners you are invested in are diluting. doesnt take much work. You dont own NG do you?
Pollitt & Company have this interesting view from June 2011 about stock dilution for the gold miners:
While the price of the average share in the Canadian-11 has underperformed gold, the increase in their combined market cap has almost doubled that of the metal. While the average international miner's market capitalization is still underperforming gold, this market cap is still increasing twice as fast as the average international miner's share price.
this is a unique market, all the rest of the markets that i participated in over the 32 years of doing this were about seeing a trend and trying to ride that trend. this bull trend imo (that humble stuff is bull crap-i happen to agree w/ayn rand )is about survival. the major mediums of exchange are printing vast amounts of currency. i live in the usa, i hold dollars. if 34 is any lesson @all, roosevelt called in all the gold, paid its holders 20 an oz , then when it was all collected raised the price to 35 , thus cutting pp of dollar holders in 1/2. so , i hold through these beatings. although each one has resulted in higher highs.
@this time sentiment for the miners is about as lopsided as it gets.
we are in the process of making our 2nd higher low from the december lows
i dont know if this is the bottom or not, nor is it a major concern for me. my mo is to buy weakness. can the weakness turn into a rout. sure it could, that is always a possibility. but it is doubtful! my job is survival here. i dont see fiat as a means to accomplishing that.
tria- interesting chart
dougie- could you post a llist of miners that are diluting their shares, i want to see if any companies that i invested in are on that long list! tia
dharma