{"id":41520,"date":"2018-01-12T10:25:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=41520"},"modified":"2018-01-12T10:25:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:25:44","slug":"the-bull-market-continues-life-is-good-but-my-skin-is-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=41520","title":{"rendered":"The bull market continues. Life is good. But my skin is not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In this bull market:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">+ One-day drops are usually great buying opportunities. Facebook will drop today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">+ Stop losses work. Hope doesn&#8217;t. Remember my temporary bitcoin madness. I bought some of this idiocy:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GBTCCrashAgain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GBTCCrashAgain.jpg\" alt=\"GBTCCrashAgain\" width=\"643\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GBTCCrashAgain.jpg 643w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GBTCCrashAgain-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">When it dropped a little, I sold at $2,464.90 &#8212; a lot higher than where it is now. Impatience can be a virtue. Lots of analysts are now putting out &#8220;Bitcoin is Crashing&#8221; reports. Buffett says this will not end well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">There&#8217;s a\u00a0cryptocurrency platform (hedge fund) offering 100x leverage. The CEO told <em>Business Insider<\/em> that he turns down investor cash. One hundred times leverage. That&#8217;s amazing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">+ Stock prices are not high &#8212; if you believe in the continuing consumer, business, tax boom. Moreover, there are still a lot of people who aren&#8217;t in the market. Money is on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">+ I like GE and Boeing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">+ Oil is approaching $70 a barrel, a price not seen in three years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/oilprice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/oilprice.jpg\" alt=\"oilprice\" width=\"437\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/oilprice.jpg 437w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/oilprice-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oil stocks are gaining favor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">+ Old Wall Street saying: Don&#8217;t confuse brains with a bull market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">+ It will be all over when your barber or Uber driver ask you about FANG.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Stuff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">+ Please change all your banking userIDs and passwords today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">+ Ask your bank and\/brokerage for &#8220;two factor authentication.&#8221; If my bank doesn&#8217;t recognize the computer I&#8217;m calling on, it will text me a long number it wants to continue. When I access this blog site, I have to pass through two sets of UserID and passwords. They&#8217;re all different. Putting in two factor authentication on this site stopped the hacking stone dead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">+\u00a0Intel told some of its customers to delay installing a patch it gave out for the massive Spectre and Meltdown bugs because it causes some of its processors to stop working. Will you trust Intel&#8217;s Mobileye technology to drive your car?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">+ Don&#8217;t subscribe to cheap subscription deals. Often they come with automatic renewal at a much higher rate. And you&#8217;ll never be able to stop the new, high monthly charges. Auto-renew is a license to steal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>A little reading is good<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FireandFurty.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FireandFurty.png\" alt=\"FireandFurty\" width=\"417\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FireandFurty.png 417w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FireandFurty-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Initial print run was 150,000. With the White House (and others) giving it all that delicious free publicity, the publisher bumped the print run to one million. That doesn&#8217;t include the digital Kindle version which I bought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have no idea how much of the book is fake or real news. I do know that the author&#8217;s royalties, which will be in the millions, are real. am I jealous? Yes!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My favorite review of the book is by <em>Rolling Stone&#8217;s<\/em> Matt Taibbi. Click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/features\/taibbi-tldr-guide-to-michael-wolffs-fire-and-fury-w515359?utm_source=rsnewsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=daily&amp;utm_campaign=011118_17\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/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\" 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&#8217;s off to his California palace tomorrow. Tennis is on the agenda. 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