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As grinding as recent weeks have been, we at least can see a very plain line has been drawn along the median between the sellers and buyers. The new about the tariffs being zapped was supposed to be a mega-bullish event, but with the /ES up 0.73% and the /RTY up 0.04%, it isn’t exactly one for the history books. I suspect next week is going to be chiefly about one thing: NVDA’s earnings on Wednesday. In the meanwhile, the line in the sand have been plainly drawn for next week.
Let’s tackle a big subject today, which is how to live our lives thoughtfully. I’ve been giving this some thought and would like to share them with you on this Presidents’ Day. Forgive its length, but, c’mon, the market is closed, so what else are you gonna do?
My short-sale ideas over the past year have been extraordinary. What isn’t so extraordinary is my ability to stick with them! Here are just five examples of short-sale ideas which paid off GREAT for me, I covered at nice profits……..and they just……..keep…………FALLING. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it a hundred times more: I’m a brilliant chartist but overly-scared to be a great trader. Shame on me! I’m confident all five of these will keep getting blown to smithereens.
The human predilection for big round numbers is unceasing. On Friday, when the Dow crossed 50,000 (see all those big round numbers??) for the first time ever, the cult distributed this:
As a starting point, I suggest you take a quick look at this post from a decade ago as well as this more recent one. They both relate to something I’ve written about a number of times, which is teens hurling themselves in front of trains here in my otherwise gentle town of Palo Alto.
It happened again this week, with one Summer Devi Mehta, a young person at Palo Alto High School who threw herself in front of CalTrain at 10:13 on Tuesday morning. What’s quite unusual is that Summer published a suicide note for all to see before she killed herself. It reads as follows.
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