{"id":39121,"date":"2017-06-26T11:10:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T15:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=39121"},"modified":"2017-06-26T11:10:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T15:10:44","slug":"trying-to-get-lucky-in-a-very-volatile-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=39121","title":{"rendered":"Trying to get lucky in a very volatile market"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is what this morning and yesterday look like. Ultra volatile.
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Berkshire’s edged back a little. Maybe put a buy order in a $165? You might get lucky.<\/p>\n

\"BRKB\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Nice positive write up on Berkshire here.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

My favorite SQ continues to look good:<\/p>\n

\"SQup\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You might get lucky and pick them up at $24. This mid-morning’s market is acting weird.<\/p>\n

I’m livid<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

+ That my eye doctor didn’t tell me that my new cataract lens would cause my \u00a0vision to markedly worsen two years down the road.<\/p>\n

+ That I didn’t study up on his cataract diagnosis\/recommendation before I let him do the operation.<\/p>\n

+ That it took so long for my eye doctors (and me) to finally figure what my problem was and that it was trivial to fix — a \u00a0one-minute YAG laser procedure.<\/p>\n

By the way cataract operations can affect your diabetes. Don’t trust me. Remember our motto: CHECK. CHECK. CHECK.<\/p>\n

Summer storms bring spikes and surges<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

You must protect everything and anything electric — including boilers, TVs, cable boxes … anything electronic. And basically everything is electronic today.<\/p>\n

When I leave our country house, I unplug<\/strong> our DSL modem and our wireless router. I also pull the grey phone cable out of the modem, since spikes and surges also come up phone lines and destroy modems.<\/p>\n

Another Don’t Do Stupid<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A friend has two step ladders in her kitchen. One is a one step. One is two steps. She was on the two-step ladder, thought she was on the one-step ladder. She stepped backwards, thinking she was the ground. She tripped, fell backwards and hit her head.<\/p>\n

She’s bruised, shaken up and lucky. Don’t do stupid.<\/p>\n

Tell your kids to become plumbers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

My friend is paying $180 an hour for a New York City plumber.<\/p>\n

If the plumber worked 40 hours a week for 50 weeks a year, he would earn $360,000 a year.<\/p>\n

That’s not shabby. More than most college professors.<\/p>\n

I’m not being stupid, nor denying the benefit of a college educations. But … owning a plumbing business is not shabby, either.<\/p>\n

Try getting a plumber or a electrician in your local neighborhood today. I’m waiting three weeks on an electrician.<\/p>\n

News of note<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

+ \u00a0The Supreme Court will hear a case on a baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, citing religious objections.<\/p>\n

\"gaywedding<\/a><\/p>\n

Two reasons to be wary of the cloud and to always have an off-line backup.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

+\u00a0Microsoft suffered a massive code leak, after Windows 10 source code was posted online anonymously. Microsoft confirmed the leak, which included confidential Windows 10 builds that hackers could have used to find security flaws.<\/p>\n

+\u00a0Mac malware is surging, according to analysis from security firm McAffee. The number of cases of malware targeting Macs was up 53% in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

My favorite off-line backup — a USB thumb drive:<\/p>\n

\"Flashdrive\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t see Wonder Woman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It’s boring and wooden. It held my attention for a good seven minutes before I wanted to leave. I left after 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

\"Wonder_Woman_(2017_film)\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Favorite cartoon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"constantcriticism\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"HarryNewton\"<\/a>
\nHarry Newton, who had a wonderful weekend playing too much tennis and enjoying iPhone Photostream pictures of the grandchildren, including Peter, 17 months and looking good.
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This is what this morning and yesterday look like. Ultra volatile. Berkshire’s edged back a little. Maybe put a buy order in a $165? You might get lucky. Nice positive write up on Berkshire here. My favorite SQ continues to look good: You might get lucky and pick them up at $24. This mid-morning’s market […]<\/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-39121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39121","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=39121"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39142,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39121\/revisions\/39142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}