{"id":31494,"date":"2015-07-27T11:34:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T15:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=31494"},"modified":"2015-07-27T11:34:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T15:34:49","slug":"trying-to-sell-you-learned-predicting-stuff-i-prefer-my-ouija-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=31494","title":{"rendered":"Trying to sell you &#8220;learned&#8221; predicting stuff. I prefer my Ouija board."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/AnotherDisaster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/AnotherDisaster.jpg\" alt=\"AnotherDisaster\" width=\"565\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/AnotherDisaster.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/AnotherDisaster-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Don&#8217;t buy gold. Buy silver.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There, that will save you reading all the frightening, nonsense words from the New York Times &#8220;best-selling author&#8221; whose job is to sell you a newsletter,\u00a0 a book,\u00a0 a Ouji board or anything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I prefer the Ouija board.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OujiaBoard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OujiaBoard.jpg\" alt=\"VARIOUS - 2006\" width=\"596\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OujiaBoard.jpg 596w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OujiaBoard-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Suffice, you can&#8217;t predict the market. But you can buy out-of-the money LEAPs on the S&amp;P500. I&#8217;m looking into them today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Best weekend quote:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">&#8220;Successful diplomacy is generally more about managing problems, not solving them.&#8221; &#8212; from Thomas Christensen, author of The China Challenge. Shaping the choices of a rising power.<\/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\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton.jpg\" alt=\"HarryNewton\" 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 who spent the weekend doing a bunch of useful chores, none of which had to do with searching for the perfect investment. I suspect Gilead (GILD) might make a good nibble at $111.11. It reports after the market closes tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){   (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),   m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)   })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');    ga('create', 'UA-45200733-1', 'technologyinvestor.com');   ga('send', 'pageview');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t buy gold. Buy silver. There, that will save you reading all the frightening, nonsense words from the New York Times &#8220;best-selling author&#8221; whose job is to sell you a newsletter,\u00a0 a book,\u00a0 a Ouji board or anything. I prefer the Ouija board. Suffice, you can&#8217;t predict the market. But you can buy out-of-the money [&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-31494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31494","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=31494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}