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Strategies & Market Trends : LastShadow's Position Trading
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To: Jay Lyons who wrote (1503)10/21/1998 6:46:00 PM
From: LastShadow  Read Replies (2) of 43080
 
Off topic:

Being a charitable sort of guy, I get a lot of mailings for end of year gift giving, and I thought I would take a moment to pass on a thought.

The cost of 20 meals at the Detroit Rescue Mission for Thanksgiving is less than $32 - less than the cost of one round turn trade commissions. You are sitting there in front of a machine that cost several thousand dollars, paying that much just to trade, not including data feeds and subscriptions and monthly charges for real time sites.

These people aren't bums. They are families out of work or having difficult time because of medical or social issues or lack of work. They are teenagers and women and older people with no family, or none that care. They are children and just about all of them are alone.

For all of our dissatisfaction with a slow broker or spammed posting or dumb trade we still are rich. We go to the fridge to get something to eat. We go out to dinner if we don't want to cook. We think absolutely nothing of spending 5 bucks for a fast food lunch. But we are also rich in the friendship and companionships we have, if here more than anywhere else. These are people we can commiserate with, laugh with, people who honestly care about each other.

You don't have that in a shelter. You have anger and despair and a grasping sense of hopelessness.

Just $32 will feed a lot of people on Thanksgiving. But more than that, it ignores the politics and prejudices and reaches an invisible hand to help someone who needs to know that someone somewhere cares about them. Cares enough to offer them a simple meal.

Scott McCormick
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