http://4jdl.com/wp John's Words - looking for the best blend Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:17:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://4jdl.com/wp/2009/02/05/soc-7/ http://4jdl.com/wp/2009/02/05/soc-7/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:12:42 +0000 John http://4jdl.com/wp/?p=189

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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