{"id":4560,"date":"2010-11-03T09:07:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T13:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=4560"},"modified":"2010-11-03T09:15:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T13:15:10","slug":"day-by-day-contrariness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=4560","title":{"rendered":"Day by day contrariness."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Monday, I was bullish. The market went down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tuesday, I was bearish. The market boomed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This morning I&#8217;m pretending to be ultra-bearish. Pray I&#8217;m wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Meantime, this morning I&#8217;m watching Nadal battle Federer in Madrid. Much more interesting than watching endless &#8220;pundits&#8221; interpret yesterday&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Worst\u00a0 investment of the election: Meg Whitman blew $150 million or so of her own money trying to become governor of California. News of her illegal undocumented untaxed Mexican maid did her in. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Fidelity&#8217;s Active Trade Pro is neat software.<\/strong><\/span> To me it&#8217;s the most full-featured of the online software out there. Fidelity has two platforms; Its simple one and its Active Trader Pro. You can actually use both. You can jump back and forth between them if you find Active Trade Pro daunting (which it can be). I like the real-time portfolio updates. I like the charting options. Son Michael didn&#8217;t like the blue charting option:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PatriotBlue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4570\" title=\"PatriotBlue\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PatriotBlue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PatriotBlue.jpg 638w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PatriotBlue-300x119.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Active Trade Pro also has a white option:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PatriotBlue.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PatriotWhite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4571\" title=\"PatriotWhite\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PatriotWhite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PatriotWhite.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PatriotWhite-300x121.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I like Patriot. It&#8217;s bouncing back ever since it has become evident that Obama likes coal, not natural gas or nuclear. Go figure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>My friend&#8217;s great option trade:<\/strong><\/span> He emails me: &#8220;Bought VECO for $40.07.\u00a0  STO NOV 40 CALL for $2.05.\u00a0  Make 4.9% if called \/ 4.9% if not called.  Not bad for 19 days!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He found VECO by checking with<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.compoundstockearnings.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Compound Stock Earnings <\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorvest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>VectorVest<\/strong><\/a>. He also follows a guru who says when it breaks above its <strong>28 moving average, <\/strong>buy. He also likes VECO because it makes blue diodes &#8212; which are &#8220;the next hot area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Speaking enthusiastically for Dragon.<\/strong><\/span> My friend Fred Tarter speaks faster than he types. He raves about the latest Dragon. He says the speech-to-text software requires little training, and can produce copy that&#8217;s 99% accurate, requiring Marilyn Hill, his wonderful assistant,\u00a0 to make few changes to his work. I clipped this from Nuance&#8217;s site. The software costs $199. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.nuance.com\/store\/nuanceus\/en_US\/DisplayHomePage\/ThemeID.20545600\/Currency.USD\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/DragonNaturallySpeaking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4561\" title=\"DragonNaturallySpeaking\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/DragonNaturallySpeaking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/DragonNaturallySpeaking.jpg 633w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/DragonNaturallySpeaking-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Getting &#8220;arthritis?&#8221;<\/strong><\/span> Everyone of my friends (and my wife) is complaining of their &#8220;new arthritis.&#8221; Before you despair of your new infirmities, know two things:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">1. The weather has become colder. Your body doesn&#8217;t like that, but will recover when it figures out the season&#8217;s change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">2. You could be cramping. We get that in tennis. And we solve it by drinking water. Lots of water. Not wine. Not coffee. No soda. WATER.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Meantime, Aleve works.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Do NOT see this stupid, slow movie.<\/strong><\/span> I spent $11 on an A.K. ticket last night. I walked out. It was slow and boring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hereafterposter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4565\" title=\"hereafterposter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hereafterposter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A.K. stands for alta kaka &#8212; as in old pooh pooh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Women versus Men.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the  tree. Most men don&#8217;t want to reach for the good ones because they are  afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they sometimes take the  apples from the ground that aren&#8217;t as good, but are easy. The apples at the  top think something is wrong with them, when in reality, they&#8217;re  amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one  who is brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now  men&#8230;.men are like a fine wine. They began as grapes, and it&#8217;s up to  women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something  acceptable to have dinner with.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/HarryNewtonNewShot2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"HarryNewtonNewShot\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/HarryNewtonNewShot2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Harry Newton who played tennis out of his mind yesterday. The secret: newly-strung racket with Luxilon at 72lbs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Luxilon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4567\" title=\"Luxilon2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Luxilon2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Luxilon2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Luxilon2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s cheaper to buy your own strings and pay your stringer. For the string, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisexpress.com\/LUXILON-M2-Pro-125-17g-Strings-10337\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nadal just won the Madrid ATP final. Federer made too many unenforced errors. Nadal&#8217;s top-spin is lethal. I wish I could make his shot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, I was bullish. The market went down. Tuesday, I was bearish. The market boomed. This morning I&#8217;m pretending to be ultra-bearish. Pray I&#8217;m wrong. Meantime, this morning I&#8217;m watching Nadal battle Federer in Madrid. Much more interesting than watching endless &#8220;pundits&#8221; interpret yesterday&#8217;s election. 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