January 2010

Now This Will Get the New Year Started off Properly, Even if it Says it is for the Summer

I think that the idea of embedding tuna fish in jello is a stroke of pure genius.

January 9, 2010

Good start for the new year.  My account is up a little over 6%. I wish I could do that every week, but of course that is unrealistic. Sure beats the averages.

January 16, 2010

Suddenly nothing is working. Reasonably good news on Intel and JPM is treated as bad news.  The charts of some of my stocks look terrible. Unless something changes, I will be selling a lot of stuff on Tuesday (Monday being a holiday). What is worse, some of the Yahoo data I use to import into the Fasttrack database has been wrong, and as a result the systems have been working with false data. No more using Yahoo. Simply not reliable. They are irresponsible to put such bad data out there.

January 19, 2010

Stuff looks much better today.  

January 21, 2010

Today and yesterday look terrible. Obama proposes some good reforms for the financial system, and the people on CNBC act like it is a terrible thing. They are (particularly Larry Kudlow) not newspersons, but cheerleaders and defenders of whatever business does. Pathetic. The banks got us into this mess by doing stupid things, yet they say that they need to have huge bonuses and pay scales in order to attract talent. What talent?

Due to market sentiment, the problems with the metals, China, etc. I have sold out all my positions.  This may be premature, and a big mistake. Tomorrow things may improve.  However, if the market does improve, it will be based on new leadership, and I had the old leadership. Anyway, this is more out of prudence, rather than a belief that he market will go into a long-term decline.

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January 27, 2010

Well, selling last Thursday was a good move.  Major averages are down 3-5% since then - as of mid day. Then a bit of a rebound on the Fed not changing anything. People seemed to like Apple's new product also. We may be able to move up from here.

January 30, 2010

Bad end for a bad month. I lost less than 2%, but I am not pleased at having let that 6% gain get away from me.

Meanwhile, here is something interesting about homosexuality in Afghanistan. O, pardon me, it is not homosexuality, it is man sex or boy love, or something.

Pashtun men commonly have sex with other men, admire other men physically, have sexual relationships with boys and shun women both socially and sexually -- yet they completely reject the label of "homosexual." The research was conducted as part of a longstanding effort to better understand Afghan culture and improve Western interaction with the local people. 

The research unit, which was attached to a Marine battalion in southern Afghanistan, acknowledged that the behavior of some Afghan men has left Western forces "frequently confused." ...

The U.S. army medic also told members of the research unit that she and her colleagues had to explain to a local man how to get his wife pregnant. 

The report said: "When it was explained to him what was necessary, he reacted with disgust and asked, 'How could one feel desire to be with a woman, who God has made unclean, when one could be with a man, who is clean? Surely this must be wrong.'" 

Well, the ancient Greeks has similar opinions at one time, and I believe that such attitudes are to be expected in cultures where women are viewed as inferior. But I bet those Greeks knew how to get a woman pregnant. What an idiotic, primitive culture.