{"id":25122,"date":"2014-03-20T09:26:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T13:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=25122"},"modified":"2014-03-20T09:26:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T13:26:33","slug":"staying-optimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=25122","title":{"rendered":"Staying optimistic."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sanity and a peaceful life is not what today&#8217;s stockmarkets are about. One day Crimea. The next day Yellen wants to raise interest rates. One day, pain. The next day, pleasure. Today&#8217;s stockmarkets are not for the feint of heart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Be wary of being caught by too tight stops. I&#8217;m tempted to raise many of my stops to 12%. I can&#8217;t see an imminent big crash. I remain optimistic, even after yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My friend picks up a few shekels by selling puts when the market rises and selling call options when it falls. Often he buys them back a day or two later, picking up a little profit along the way. The price of options varies dramatically from one volatile day to the next.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>TSA PreCHK is the greatest invention ever.<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> It lets you fly through airport security. No more taking your shoes off.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t even take my laptops out when I left San Francisco on Monday night. For more, click <a title=\"TSA Precheck.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/tsa-precheck\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Watch as 1000 years of European borders change.<\/strong><\/span> Click <a title=\"Watch as 1,000 years of European borders change.\" href=\"http:\/\/loiter.co\/v\/watch-as-1000years-of-european-boarders-change\/\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>What Pakistan knew about Bin Laden. <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They were harboring him. Pakistan trains the suicide bombers that hurt Afghanistan. It gets worse. You really need to read this engrossing piece from the weekend&#8217;s New York Times Magazine by a reporter who spent 12 years in Afghanistan.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Click<\/span><strong> <a title=\"What Pakistan knew about Bin Laden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/23\/magazine\/what-pakistan-knew-about-bin-laden.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The fastest cell phone data in New York City? <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Verizon.\u00a0 Laptop Magazine measured in my old stomping ground &#8212; the Flatiron District:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Laptopspeeds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25125\" alt=\"Laptopspeeds\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Laptopspeeds.jpg\" width=\"503\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Laptopspeeds.jpg 503w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Laptopspeeds-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For more New York City locations &#8212; Verizon wins everywhere &#8212;\u00a0 click <strong><a title=\"Verizon tops cell data speeds in New York City\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.laptopmag.com\/fastest-4g-nyc\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21218\" alt=\"HarryNewton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHarry Newton.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\n  })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');\n\n  ga('create', 'UA-45200733-1', 'technologyinvestor.com');\n  ga('send', 'pageview');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanity and a peaceful life is not what today&#8217;s stockmarkets are about. One day Crimea. The next day Yellen wants to raise interest rates. One day, pain. The next day, pleasure. Today&#8217;s stockmarkets are not for the feint of heart. Be wary of being caught by too tight stops. I&#8217;m tempted to raise many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}