Ahhhh, my Aeron chair. My 30 inch monitor. My three displays. I am at peace again.

Much of my vacation was spent reading technical analysis books. I'm a die-hard, I admit it. Part of the reason is that I have my final CMT test on the 25th, and I've got to really start hitting the books. I went through Prechter's classic Elliott Wave book cover to cover, and I read Constance Brown's book from 1998 (from which I derived only one good thing – – – a newfound interest in Gann, about which I know virtually nothing, but I intend to learn as much as I can muster).

I've been doing a deep-dive on Fibonacci, and there are all kinds of things I want to add to ProphetCharts based on my reading. I'm a pretty crummy student, but I'm really trying to learn as much as I can and concentrate on the material, since sometimes it is pretty dense.

I'd love to stay up all night looking at charts, but after a day full of traveling, I think I'm spent.

I am typing this on my iPhone having survived the stupid and idiotic passport control morons. My contempt for all government employees has now reached depths I thought unimaginable. Only the slowest, stupidest, and most inept excuses for humans work for the government. At the other end of the spectrum are small business owners. And there are a whole host of categories in between.
At least the market got clobbered today and my plane imprisonment did me no harm. I now fly to San Francisco. I will do a new post Wednesday morning. And yes, this was all tapped out on a iPhone.
Government. Employees. Suck.

In the airport, looking at fantastic charts, and getting ready for my plane prison where I cannot access anything.

Good-bye, Jamaica. "No problem, mon!" You don't understand. I like problems.

Farewell, Slopers. Good luck with the rest of your day.

There are two bad things about today for me: (1) Principal Financial Group, which is where, unfortunately, my IRA is held against its will, is still completely down. How can a brokerage be down for an entire week? So my stops are getting increasingly stale. I'm ready to strangle those guys. (2) I'm going to be on a plane most of the trading day, which for me is sheer torture.

For you, as a reminder, that means there won't be any more blog posts, except for maybe a quick comment cleaner after the close. So it's going to be pretty much an "all comments" day.

I'm having a good morning so far, but you never know how these things are going to turn out. And, OK, fine, I admit, I went ahead and bought some FAZ below $10 this morning, but I bought a sensible amount this time!

Good luck with your trading day, everyone. I'm looking forward to returning to Slope Normal tomorrow morning.

Date: Autumn 2009. On the left side of the screen: Slopers. On the right: Everyone Else.