MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

(This is an encore version of the email sent yesterday, March 4)

Greetings,

I know many of you are eager to get together and I wanted to remind you to set our meeting on your calendar for next Wednesday.

What I would like to propose for a meeting agenda is for me to jump into the pulpit and launch into a review of the "Market Technicians Association" Annual Meeting which I attended in Tampa Florida at the beautiful Don Cesar Hotel right at the beach. There were a number of interesting points to highlight and think this is a great venue to review my two-day excursion. I suggest highly that you all go next year as it is a great way to meet people in the industry.

I would also love to show you QCharts and the power that the software has to both find and track futures and stocks. This alone could be an hour of material depending on what you are all interested in reviewing.

Keep in mind that I am now enrolled in the CFP course - so my time is more limited than before.

Of course, we will also be reviewing the ideas of group members both at the meeting and after the meeting while we sit down to a dinner where more extensive conversations can occur. The delicious menu at BobbyQ's is 2nd to none in the area so swing by and throw your hat in the ring.

I'm considering a bigger, 1-year (or end of year) prize for best market/directional call for the calendar year. Not exactly sure how to design this contest, but I like the 1-month forecasts, but realize that it is more realistic and practical to include longer time horizons. Realistically, we want to generate long-term capital gains on assets held longer than 1-year (and 1-day, to be exact).

I met with someone who would be a great addition to the group and he was interested in having a full group discusion on the gold market to include all of the bullish and bearish fundamentals of the gold market. Basically, let's cover everything we can think of on the gold market to make a case one way or the other for the outlook for gold. I personally LOVE this idea and would love to hear any reaction at all. All of us collectively could gather many reports, studies, projections of analysts, etc to pull together a "Ben Franklin" pros/cons list of reasons to go long or short gold.

As many of you know, my kick-off presentation back in October, (which was a re-do of my 2004 and 2002 presentations on gold, the dollar, real estate, stocks, inflation, wars, impeachment, presidential elections, etc....) might be worth re-visiting as well at the meeting to see which, if any, of the concepts are still at play and merit closer attention: Do any of you remember the main points or any of my presentation?

Well, we'll see you next Wednesday and do let me know if you can make it as we might need a bigger room if all of you are coming!

Best regards,

Tim West

BIG NOTE HERE: Please send all replies to tim_wst@yahoo.com by replying to this email. If you know of anyone interested in coming to the meeting, do ask them to contact me too to make sure there is room for everyone comfortably.