To All: "Arghhhhhh! I Hate Corrections!!!!!" See the new thread above. Music to a GOOFI's ears. The whole kit and kaboodle, the whole shebang might be slipping and sliding to GOOF status. Stand by, line up, get your kit bags ready. But remember, be patient!
Anyone there done Fourier Analysis in their maths days? Without boring you with the gory details, [which saves me the embarrassment of admitting that I can't remember much about it], the stockmarket and its many components are made of waves of prices cycling up and down. So we can still hunt GOOFs but watch out because this might be the giant GOOF which takes all down with the sinking tide. Abandon ship now if you aren't happy to take the big dipper. But as for me, I'm predicting 8000 for the Dow in 1998, with the Nasdaq tagging along, so I'll ride out any thrills on the way.
But if you get stuck in the node of an interference pattern, you might end up splattered on the bottom of a triple trough, or luckily bob happily on the top despite ugly scenes all around.
This is part of my problem, which we all seem to be hooking onto. Are we so enamoured of our delight at finding the lode in Dry Gulch that we cling to it when others have come swarming in, cleaned it out, given up on it and moved on, leaving us with pathetic remembrance of once proud achievement? When to sell?
It has to be when the crowd has moved in and crowds are crowing about their discovery in your gulch. Because then as a true GOOFI, you are no longer adding value. You are sitting among the noisy, glittering crowd. No! Look around you! You belong with the sage brush and thorns, dust and starry night.
Wait until the room is full of shouting and singing, boasting and music and you are forgotten in the corner. Then quietly slip out the side door expecting neither recognition nor adulation. Incognito, into the dark. |
