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contrarian Profile| Send Message| (970)    It happens to the
best investors sooner or later. You filter stocks with screen
after screen. You whittle the survivors down to a short list of
candidates, and you crunch their numbers forwards and backwards.
You nearly go blind studying the fine print in the reports of
your finalists, and you consider all the possible scenarios.
Finally you buy the perfect stock, and your top scenario plays
out exactly as you had envisioned and hoped. The stars align,
and your stock…well, it sits as motionless as a deer in
headlights. In light of the historic rise in gold prices, this
is the sad story of gold miner stocks lately.  This article
offers three theories why gold stocks are trailing the market,
even though the spot price of gold has risen faster than any of
the market indices in the past couple years. I will also offer
my plans for gold investing in the