Well, fsck me! I missed the ex-div date by 1 gawdamn day! I'm currently going over my 401k rollover IRA plans and had intended to make my second ICENX buy before the traditional 12/17 ex-div date when I noticed the gigantic drop in share price on Nov 11th. Maybe I bought it on purpose ex-div, I can't remember now.....brain function ain't that great these days (lyme disease).

At least now I know not to buy my intended second lot, at least for now.....just heard predictions that gasoline may drop to a dollar, natty gas is going to drop even more, and that OPEC may cut production by 2 million barrels/day to prop up the price of oil. Obviously not the time to be investing more money in the energy sector!

On the other hand, my buy of DRYS a few weeks ago has already doubled in value (even a blind squirrel and all that ;-)