didn't amount to much in front of this down draft either. I had an e-Mail from a cyber-friend and he said he was short a bunch of Z/G spreads and when he read that I didn't want to be short the ZZZs he was a bit scared. But he hung on and closed them at a good price.

Nearly five-years ago my next door neighbor and I started a small commodity pool to trade hogs. October was the first down month we have had since March and October was only down 0.40%. Since we organized our pool on 1/30/11, we have had an average monthly gain of 2.43%. That's better than the stock market.

For a while this morning I thought the market was going to be kind to you, Dewey, but it is not so good now.

Best wishes,

dhm