The automated trading system lost 500 bucks today. It made three trades and was stopped out of all of them. Kind of a choppy day. Oh well, you can’t win them all, I guess. Better luck next time. Chin up.
On another note, each person in my class was forced to write a one-word positive adjective about me today and here is the list:

insightful
philosophical
honest
smart
scientist
optimist
thinker
compassion
knowledgeable
relaxed
deep
hopeful
funny, insightful

I was disappointed not to see “striking” or “fetching” on the list, but I guess you have to take what you can get.
What one-word positive adjectives would readers of uglychart.com give me?

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

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“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

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This article about Bobby Fischer in the timesonline is interesting, about a bunch of people who are squabbling over his estate, including one woman who claims her child is also Bobby Fischer’s daughter. I found the most interesting parts were some quotes from Bobby’s friend/psychiatrist Magnus Skulason:

“I never asked him questions about himself, you must understand. He became very irritated if you did that,� Skulason begins tentatively. “But he once asked me about the origins of psychiatric illness. I think he realised there was something missing in himself. In a way he was searching like a young boy, still trying to understand himself and the world.�

“He told me he kept having the same dream. But he never wanted to talk about it. It seemed memories were trying to come out,� says the psychiatrist.

“I don’t believe Bobby was badly treated as a boy. But he was lonely. He missed having a father, and his mother was often outside the home.�

“Without basic trust, a person relies far too much on such primitive defences as building walls, blaming others and projecting negative feelings onto them.� Fischer himself once said of his aggression: “Those who don’t have fathers become like wolves.�

His last words were: “Nothing is as healing as the human touch.”

One interesting thing on inspectd is that (if you have the option set) it will sometimes throw in random charts that are current. In other words, non-historical charts. This is interesting because it makes you think to yourself, man I just clicked buy on this stock - maybe I should really buy it. You can see my real-time trades here. And here is a screenshot of how I’m doing so far:

Unfortunately, I think I will try to keep this option turned off, because real-time trades aren’t survivor-biased, so it is possible that I could lose septillions of dollars and actually wipe my massive account out. As long as I buy the historical charts, I will never wipe out because of survivor bias.

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“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

– Click here for today’s full list –

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

– Click here for today’s full list –