5 posts tagged “finance”

Around January 14th, I could tell that my focus went deep sea diving and I am in the process of getting it back.

I could tell that I was off because I was making investment decisions and my actions were not in sync with the decisions at all.  Then when I would investigate what was going on, the trades would appear as if someone else made them.

I have heard of the impact of weather, temperatures, and even cycles and rotations of planets and the moon upon both people and the financial markets and there is some truth to it.  Astronomy was once a field studied by those who studied Christianity more than for secular aims and purposes.  But it has become a field that has been downgraded more to 900 numbers or get rich quick schemes.

We must remember that the wise men followed a star in the east.

I am pushing to get to February as the beginning of the months are very strong for me.

In the meantime, I have to make sure that I am not allowing fatigue to guide my actions and ensure that my energy levels keep my head in the game versus getting me benched.

Being February is the month noted for love and lovers, getting my groove back might become easier to accomplish.

I can say that I have been deeply inspired on the political front by presidential candidate Barack Obama to a level that I could not imagine!

Peace!

Right now I feel like I have been whupped (not whipped) into shape like a new recruit at boot camp by a crazed-on-the-surface-but-highly-professional drill sargeant.

Everything has been for my good, but the lessons have me a little too sore to celebrate the long-term benefits today.

Yesterday I reaped a significant windfall only to end up with a loss for the day.

Today I recovered yesterday's loss and advanced everything beyond its original balance but I failed to take advantage of two to three key opportunities to fatten everything even more.

I am glad about not losing but I am slapped in the face about having a blind spot in an area that I was fully aware of that would have advanced my cause further.

Our oldest daughter received a Nintendo DS Lite from Santa for Christmas and lo and behold, I can tell that playing the games is improving my investing skills on an ethereal level.

The same motions, traps, and pitfalls that one encounters while playing video games are the same ones that occur while investing.  I need to seek a grant to further prove it although it is now obvious to me:)

I am not talking about one of the latest games either.  Since my wife and I returning to the world of video gaming, we picked out the Namco Museum game which includes Pac-Man, Galaga, Galaxian, Xevious?, Mappy, and a few others for a total of 7 games I believe.

Playing these games that were created in the early 80s showed me how it is so easy to know what is going to happen next but fail to move or click in the right direction at the right time.  Remembering the big picture is so critical as a skill in many endeavors.

But now the lessons have been learned and learned well I might add.

I feel like Orlando Bloom's character within the movie "Kingdom of God" when he was brutally slapped in the face and told to "Arise as a knight".

It is going to feel better in the coming days, months, and years, but today I have tears (and not mist) in my eyes and I am not ashamed to say it:)

I am just glad that my head was not detached from my shoulders!

Peace!

Today's financial markets have been so one-sided that a lot of traders are standing on the sidelines and I am one of them.

The danger in a single-sided market is that you have no clue when things will reverse (usually right after you get in--wink wink) and pull the same magnitude within the opposite direction with breakneck speed.

Until that point is changed and it may take 2008 to get somewhat back to normal, today is a day where I am saying "Better let the big dogs eat and stay on the porch".

I had a little fur taken out of my Bearcat mentality and trading philosophy today and I will lick my wounds until further notice:)

Peace!

I was trading when the news first indicated that she was assassinated.  Then a correction was almost immediately issued that indicated that she was severely injured.

Once the news confirmed that she was indeed martyred, I could tell that the today was not going to be the same.

Time went into suspended animation and within such moments, everything such as time stands still and the feeling as if one is at the top of a roller coaster before the plunge kicks in and there is nothing that can be done about it.

Right now it appears as if the markets have yet to fully recover from an operational standpoint and everyone is taking the time to digest the impact.  I sure do not feel like doing much in the aftermath.

The oil markets have already skyrocketed as a result and everyone else is not feeling like doing much at this time.

Bhutto was one trying to lead her country into a new era.  Sadly, she had to give her life in the process.

She was a very beautiful woman and you could immediately tell that she was dignity.

Rest in peace Benazir Bhutto.

This week I have been getting up much earlier than my normal wake up times and it has been consistently profitable thus far.

I have been up so early that I have been wearing shades when I first get on the computer:)  I do not even want to turn the lights on in order to turn down the monitor light level.

Since a lot of activity follows the market behavior in London, working for brief periods on their schedule helped me pick off opportunities (during regular market hours on both continents) that I would have missed the first time through on east coast time.

It feels almost like baseball in watching a pitcher throw to the batter ahead of you in the lineup when your swinging styles are almost the same.

By the time it is prime time to make my own moves, I am feeling fully alert, warmed up, and ready to go.

One funny thing is the short periods (less than 45 minutes to 1 hour usually) are typically providing enough time to allow me to go back to bed for a nice, little, twilight morning nap before my regular wake up time.

One of Denzel Washington's career principles is being understood more and more:

"Be willing to do things that others will not do in order to do things that others cannot do".

So climbing out of bed in order to avoid a lengthy Atlanta commute, insecure managers that just don't "get it" (like on the tv show "The Office"), and other workplace drama that I have paid my dues to overcome, reduce, and eliminate from my life is absolutely worth it.

I finally have achieved an immigrant work ethic to go along with my MBA in finance:)  LOL:)

Praise God!!!

Peace!