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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

Symbol		Price	Volume	Avg. Volume	% Vol. Increase
UAUA		8.15	20344972	5533560	%267.66
LCC		5.35	9637531	3735740	%157.98
JBLU		4.36	9427768	5411360	%74.22
BARE		18.43	1852470	1132770	%63.53
FMD		2.98	1636197	2794490	%-41.44

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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

Symbol		Price	Volume	Avg. Volume	% Vol. Increase
PBR		75.19	25965292	18688400	%38.93
USO		108.31	17163776	8004490	%114.42
CSX		68.85	8816381	5706100	%54.50
ANR		71.67	5494662	3330920	%64.95
GNA		17.77	4872723	1398230	%248.49

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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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“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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The market fluctuated today. The automated trading system got a bit chopped up, going 0 for 3. We lost the connection to the internet at one point and it threw things off a bit. You can’t win them all.

• PayPal Founder Peter Thiel Says Think Contrarily, Act Warily — Peter Thiel — InformationWeek
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• Can Money Buy Happiness? — The American, A Magazine of Ideas
  “Money doesn’t buy happiness, but success does. Capitalism, moored in values of hard work, honesty, and fairness, is key.”
  exactly
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• Hoover Institution - Policy Review - The Optimistic Thought Experiment
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Thiel put down $500,000 so The Seasteading can start to build city-states in the open ocean. Sweet.

“Government is an industry with a really high barrier to entry,” he said. “You basically need to win an election or a revolution to try a new one. That’s a ridiculous barrier to entry. And it’s got enormous customer lock-in. People complain about their cellphone plans that are like two years, but think of the effort that it takes to change your citizenship.”

It’s an interesting idea, anyway.

Even if their big idea doesn’t end up panning out, their story should live on in internet lore for confirming the dream that two guys with a blog and a love of Ayn Rand can land half a million dollars to pursue their dream, no matter how off-kilter or off-grid it might seem.

The automated trading system made a new high in terms of accumulated R (risk per trade) and profit ($) today. It always feels good when that happens, especially after a nosedive start to the month of May. Now we’re up over 10R on the month with a 35.48% win rate and 0.16 expectancy.
Today the Damn Thing made a beautiful short trade on GA - I don’t think I could’ve done it any better: