http://4jdl.com/wp John's Words - looking for the best blend Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:12:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://4jdl.com/wp/2009/05/07/soc-16/ http://4jdl.com/wp/2009/05/07/soc-16/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 06:12:21 +0000 John http://4jdl.com/wp/?p=266

rain rain go away!

should have taken that walk when the sun came out earlier

4x is humming along, albeit at a muted amount

still best to work out the kinks with smaller amounts

and I’m still learning things about this craft after having made so many trades in the last decade

or should I say I am learning things about me?

that good cup of coffee today is keeping me up now

rolling along like its was early evening right now

good thing (or maybe bad) that the 4x markets don’t sleep at all

more time to practice, and its good to do while I’m not at my best

to sort of stress test myself and my trading skills

some days I would hesitate to call these skills

but I’ve proven to myself that they are skills

just that I’m sometimes not in the right frame of mind to pay attention

to the little subtle signals

and the competing voices that habitate my mind

oh that Kindle DX is tempting

just when I thought I owned everything I want

along comes a device that could be the answer to 3 needs

a platform for me to read more on (especially fiction and current stuff)

a way to ease some clutter

a prize for trading well, or perhaps hitting my fitness goals

I’m getting that feeling…

that sweet nexus of ideas, practice, and technology

the sticker price is steep

but the probably 2 year costs come out to under 2 bucks a day

and I will likely use it enough to justify that

besides if my solution seeking engine (my mind) fixates on that prize

it helps to focus me sufficiently to not do the little stupid things

that can sabotage a good trade setup- like fear and greed and impatience

just exited that trade with 2 Kindle DX days worth of profit

hitting my marks, should be time to up the ante.

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its cold its warm its snowy then sunny the market is up and down

we are on a sideways ride

bad news isn’t so bad, and good news doesn’t particularly linger

the winter is taking its toll on me

I can sense the weakness as I shop online for things I don’t need

and daydream about vacations to far away hot places

with beaches like the ones in the pictures I was sent in email

with a kangaroo, yes, a kangaroo that seemed to swim out into the ocean

and I found myself envious

a first for me – to be envious of a kangaroo

which makes me think of the story about the origins of the word

when the white traveler asked the pygmie and he answered what sounded like ‘kang a roo’

which meant ‘I don’t know’

so I’m envious of –I don’t know– what

which is neither here nor there

and this stream of thought seems to be mired somewhere between winnie the pooh and Dr Seuss

yet I haven’t had a drink today

or maybe that is the problem or the solution…

just rearranged my 4x trading charts layouts

and I like it but the first trade is agin’ me

as I lose 8 cents in my pursuit to reinvent the trader in me

and am glad 4x allows for microtrades

as 8 cents is cheap to pay for the lesson I just (re)learned about trading ranges, simple moving averages, and the fractal nature of time and prices

which makes me think just like a kid on a swing

its easy to see the turns closer to their apexes as well as take a non-blurry photo of them being so into their present moment

just that the pendulum of trading has so many participants

and I only have a handful of kids I’d photograph

and usually just one at a time

yet the market reveals itself in moments just like a girl you are enamored with and you just know exactly what to do next.

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