Since I live in the woods I get to forest bathe everyday! I do feel completely different living in a forest than I did living in a city. There’s something to be said about this. Forest bathing involves none of those things. “Just be with the trees,” as Ephrat Livni describes the practice, “no hiking, no counting steps on a Fitbit. You can sit or meander, but the point is to relax rather than accomplish anything ..read more

I stood at the beginning of the Camino de Santiago at the Montserrat Monestary. It’s a life long dream of mine to walk it one day. Better get moving because I ain’t getting any younger! Though many more walk el Camino de Santiago for other than religious reasons. Many say that the Camino is time to reset their life. It is an incredible experience and opportunity to disconnect and experience a slower daily life with few modern interruptions ..read more

Neat infographic on where you can drink tap water in the world. This is handy when you travel because I almost made the mistake of drinking from the tap in Macau. Source: Reddit ..read more

My plan is to stay out of the market today. There was some violent sell off on Friday in the semiconductors. All the stocks and ETFs I follow sold off and there were a lot of shooting starts or bearish engulfing candles. Several of the indices are looking tired too, the S&P500 has a bearish engulfing candle as well. But MSFT is hanging in there, that’s one that I want to bet on for the long term and I might be increasing my long term holdings of it ..read more

This is a trade review of my Advanced Micro Devices AMD call option trade. Why was I interested in AMD? Because it’s getting action for momentum traders interested in the AI market. Which way was AMD trading? It was in a long upward trend. Was AMD making an all-time high? Yes. When did you enter the trade and at what cost? I entered the trade on 3/1/2024. I bought 5 May 17, 2024 AMD Calls for $8 ..read more

This is a trade review of my Costco COST call option trade. Why was I interested in COST? Because earnings was coming and I wanted to catch a price run up. Which way was COST trading? It was in a long upward trend. Was COST making an all-time high? Yes. When did you enter the trade and at what cost? I entered the trade on 3/5/2024. I bought 10 June 21, 2024 COST Calls for an average price of $7 ..read more

This is the start of my weekly market reviews for my trading journal. This is my digital watering hole, where I can celebrate wins and commiserate losses. It’s where I’ll work hard to figure out my new trading strategy and find opportunities in the market. I’m an old trader, definitely not a bold trader. What a week! I sold my stock holding in NVDA for a 20% profit and closed out all my AMD and COST calls ..read more

I bought a call for COST, strike price 900 for June 21st expiration. The strategy behind buying these calls is this: earnings are due for Costco on Thursday and I expect good results. On top of that, COST has been one of my best long-term performers and I wanted to make some extra income from its strong trend. AMD closed down yesterday and NVDA managed to close up. Yesterday was a down day for the market but these two hanging tough in the face of the sell-off means the momentum is strong ..read more

Now that I’m an active trader again I’m going to restart my semi-daily trading journal. I do this to keep myself sane spot where I make mistakes and learn to correct them. I’m long NVDA and it’s been a rocket to the moon. I got in around $750 and I expect it to hit $900 first before peaking out around $1,000. Traders love round numbers and I’m very wary of them because price action could fail around there ..read more

Looks like the “Tool” Elon Musk got his hand slapped for attacking disinformation experts. Go figure, “Mr. I’m so into Free Speech” doesn’t like to be called out when the speech is proven to be wrong. Dumbass. The opening paragraph of Breyer’s ruling makes clear the judge condemns the premise of Musk’s lawsuit, in which he claimed research shared by the Center for Countering Digital Hate hurt his company’s bottom line ..read more