SoC #7
February 5th, 2009
- 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.
