Hold Short for the Weekend?

OK, I confess!  I’m short again thinking the market is about ready to fall on its toches. We are up half a ham sandwich for the week, but that’s ain’t much, but we continue to hold the short position and may do so through the weekend. I don’t know if we have ever talked about … Read More

Coping: Prepping Adventure in the Bathroom

Prepping lessons from a bath remodel?  Yessir.  There’s a gaping 24-square foot hole in the Ure master bath this morning.  Elaine had a sleepless night thinking about it.  “Gives me the heebie jee-geebie’s” is her description of things.  Something about fear of insects coming into the house… As reported Thursday, a hidden water leak is … Read More

Washington Psychodrama, Boring Markets

Although we are now about 16-months into the liberals bashing Trump, and continuing to live the lie that Hillary would have been better, we aren’t seeing much progress by either side. Instead, the game of “He said – she said” continues…and it has absolutely nothing to do with Russian influence.  Anyone every really look into Uranium One?  No?  … Read More

Coping: The Danger of Owning Tools

You ever hear the old saying, “Be careful what you wish for?” Owning tools – lots of them, enough suitable for every aspect of home building and remodeling, farm equipment and auto maintenance – is that at some point, the intention that causes one to collect tools will also manifest the need to use them. Take this week, … Read More

Basic Charting Technique

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A Do-Nothing Year for Markets

We have a strange way of looking at markets.  Theory I cobbled-up called Aggregate Market Theory (AMT). The thinking is very simple (with me, it would have to be, right?)  If you have 10-dollars on you, it doesn’t matter whether you have a five in your left pocket and a five in your right.  Or, … Read More

Coping: A Case of Co-Dreaming

I’ve been sitting on this for several days, coming to grips not only with the event I’m about to describe, but also its ramifications for a new field of science I quite accidentally stumbled-over in the past few years. I will hold off on naming the “new field” until my next book is done.  But … Read More

High News-Noise Monday

But not a lot of substantive change seen today.  My buddy (the major) and I were talking Friday, as friends of 65-years will do.  He was stuck in Seattle’s big city traffic enroute to guest lecture.  I was having a sip and reading my Kindle Fire HD 10, on the screen porche and listening to the … Read More

Coping: With a New Form of Art (Part 2)

We began our discussion of this new form of Art in Friday’s column where we offered the radical idea that consciousness may not be “nailed down” to a single point inside your head, but may instead be able to “move around” a good bit. The problem, as explained using the analogy of broadband over power line technology, … Read More

Two News Classes of Software

Some fallout this morning:  You can’t sit around researching all manner of creation and not come up with some interesting new ideas, now and then.  So this morning, we table two new classes of software to mull over.After headlines (about the president being out to launch, so to speak), a view of what follows.  From … Read More

QFRN: Quest for Real News

It’s Friday the 13th.  Triskaidekaphobia.  Comey’s off monetizing his Trump book.  Trump is moving on with no interview.  We call it “tit-for-raid.”  China’s got us by the trade balls. And Syria’s going to blow up over pipelines, resources, and regional power. Next? The problem is none of this is actionable.  And that’s the key thing. You … Read More

Coping: With a New Form of Art (Part 1)

Until 3:08 AM Thursday, I had no idea what was going on with my research direction.  While I had lots of reading material (plus half a million must-do projects around the ranch), the websites, investing, etc.) I kept coming back to the art book “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition.” Not … Read More

Fighting Over Syria has Started — in Ukraine

Not following?  Try to keep up with the class here:Russian-led troops in Donbas attack Ukraine 38 times in last day, says this report. It’s axiomatic that presidents don’t launch missiles while the market is open.  So we are reasonably confident that as soon as the market (and after hours) ends this week, things will heat … Read More