Tick Talk

It’s a cool piece of math, take wheat grain for example. Plant ten seeds, nine live to maturity and each produces about 30 more seeds EACH (9 + time,soil,water = 270). Let me put that into perspective for stock traders. You buy ten stocks. One fails. The other nine individually increase by 3,333%. Furthermore, consider the probability of success and the governing control you have if intervention is needed.

3. Non-homosapiensthat grow by eating the things planted in the ground and multiply according to their genetic propensities (fowls, domesticated cloven-hooved herds, rabbits, - oh, and a few honey bees).

4. Various personal skills and understandings that will help me develop the tools for the new micro-industrial revolution.

It is in experiencing risk consequences that one becomes acquainted with personal risk tolerance. As a result of experiencing a 78% loss in my currencies portfolio due to the fraudulent acts of REFCO (the largest broker on the CBOT in 2005), I created a rule for exiting the broad market. With my positions closed and check in hand, I knew I’d need a new medium for growth. The above asset classes are my “plan B.”

Meanwhile, should anyone notice an electronic marketplace that is governed by a perfectly transparent and democratic group of freepersons offering the above products, please let me know. I might buy a few chips and pull up a chair to that table.

5. God: it is my personal belief that the ability to prosper hinges on morality and that liquidity levels (too much and too little) will ruin the immoral. In the case of farmers, the liquidity refers to water. Floods, dearths, pesticides etc. flow from liquidity imbalances. In the case of speculative markets, the liquidity is trust. Right now the first tranche of distrust has been delivered to market. Remember, “In God We Trust” is the mantra of the honest man. As the honest are abused in dark markets, they will exhibit “light flight” (yep, just made that up) and outmigrate their funds. 

IMO, this is where the stupid money is going: this article reveals that high-end clients of Merril Lynch want gold bullion delivered to their homes. MORONS. Gold is the currency of war. If you can’t defend it with your personal army, it will be taken by force from you. Talk about painting a target on your back. Intellectual, voluntary peasants created by this second Great Depression will return to the land, wait out the wars, and establish peace shortly thereafter.

It takes two songs to sum up the above. The first is The Stand by The Alarm. The second is Forgotten Years by Midnight Oil. Enjoy!