{"id":43357,"date":"2018-06-26T09:17:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=43357"},"modified":"2018-06-26T09:17:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:17:21","slug":"a-little-strength-in-the-late-afternoon-yesterday-a-good-omen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=43357","title":{"rendered":"A little strength in the late afternoon yesterday. A good omen."},"content":{"rendered":"

Charts below showing trading yesterday. Note the strength in the late afternoon. Perhaps yesterday really was an aberration and it really was a buying opportunity? As I suggested in yesterday’s\u00a0blog. Some readers and friends picked up bargains.<\/p>\n

\"YesterdaywMSFT\"<\/a> \"YesteerdaywAMZN\"<\/a> \"YesterdaywBA\"<\/a> \"yesterdaywithNasdaq\"<\/a> \"YesterdaywGogle\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m teaching myself not\u00a0<\/strong>to panic. The rules are:<\/p>\n

Sell when stocks go up.<\/p>\n

Buy when they go down, as they go on sale.<\/p>\n

Trump’s War Wars are not messing up a fundamentally well-performing economy. They are messing up up how we think<\/em> about our economy. And that’s disturbing for the stockmarket and making it far more volatile — hence yesterday’s big drop.<\/p>\n

This morning’s perplexing tweet me wonder what the purpose of warring with, and threatening individual companies is:<\/p>\n

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

In praise of as little as possible.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Friends built big homes hoping the children would visit more. They didn’t. .<\/div>\n
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Now big homes are losing their value. When they go to sell the house, few are getting anywhere near the money they poured into their white elephant.<\/div>\n
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Houses with offices no longer have curb appeal since everybody works on an iPad in a lounge chair next to the pool.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Airbnb, VRBO and others have changed vacation dynamics. We can now rent a gorgeous place for less than the taxes on the place we used to own.<\/div>\n
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Best of all, we hand the key back when we leave. We don’t worry about the leaking toilets or the clogged gutters.<\/div>\n
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Less is more is the new mantra.<\/div>\n
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My goal is to fill a cardboard box with stuff to junk or give away. Each day. Relentless. Get rid of stuff.<\/div>\n
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I have more junk than Carter had live pills. And so do you!<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Another wonderful Buddy Hackett story\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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