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<\/a><\/p>\nYou may get lucky. You may get very lucky.<\/p>\n
Imagine if I had been intelligent enough to bid for Amazon at $1,400?<\/p>\n
Or Netflix at $260?<\/p>\n
Ultra-low bidding is the ONLY way to play a volatile market.<\/p>\n Ultra-low bidding fixes my ultra-high panicking.<\/p>\n When stocks are on sale, you buy.<\/p>\n When stocks are ultra-high (like Amazon at $2,050), then you sell.<\/p>\n Repeat this ultra-useful mantra again:<\/p>\n Ultra-low bidding is the ONLY way to play a volatile market.<\/strong><\/p>\n Ultra-low bidding fixes my ultra-high panicking.<\/strong><\/p>\n When stocks are on sale, then you buy.<\/strong><\/p>\n When stocks are ultra-high (like Amazon at $2,050), then you sell.<\/strong><\/p>\n This may be the most valuable piece of advice I’ve ever written.<\/p>\n If only I can teach myself how to listen to myself.<\/p>\n What a country!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Susan hands me this \u00a320 note, saying “This is a tip for our nice taxi driver, who drove us from the airport.”<\/p>\n I gave him the tip. He was so appreciative. He said the tip wasn’t necessary and handed the \u00a320 note back to me.<\/p>\n I was so impressed. Imagine a New York City cabbie rejecting a $26.53 tip for an airport ride! For that much money, he’d probably open his trunk and point to my luggage.<\/p>\n Today I went shopping at the local supermarket and gave them the \u00a320 note. They rejected it. They said it was old and no longer “legal tender” — whatever that means. I said the Queen looked young and pretty. My New York charm didn’t impress them.<\/p>\n They asked for real money or a credit card.<\/p>\n I like this strategy of giving twenty pound tips. Cheap.<\/p>\n By the way, Coca Cola here has real sugar. It tastes better, too.<\/p>\n Today Sophie and I are riding the red bus upstairs and going on a London adventure.<\/p>\n The London buses and the London subway take Apple Pay on your iPhone. Supermarkets also take Apple Pay.\u00a0 I love Apple Pay. How’s them Apples?<\/p>\n Never use my stupid plastic credit cards again. Keep them in my wallet. Only use my iPhone.<\/p>\n Congestion pricing<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n It costs\u00a0\u00a312 (about !6) a day to tootle around downtown London. They get you with their ubiquitous cameras.<\/p>\n Citymapper is the best city transport app in the world<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Want to get from A to B in London? It will show all the ways from subway to buses, and subway and buses and even “rain safe” and wheelchair accessible ways. Also walking and biking.<\/p>\n Simply an app you must have if you’re in a big city.<\/p>\n More facts of life<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Bill Gates has a big piece in the MIT Technology Review.\u00a0<\/em>But they had a paywall. They wouldn’t let me read Bill’s article.<\/p>\n They suggested I subscribe. OK.<\/p>\n Except that the subscription is on “auto-renew.”<\/p>\n So I emailed their customer service:<\/p>\n What can you do?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
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