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Strategies & Market Trends : ajtj's Post-Lobotomy Market Charts and Thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: da_spot who wrote (52776)	2/24/2022 2:46:29 PM
From: ajtj99	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97456

Yup, sell the rumor of the war and buy the war. Just like 1990 and 2003.

To: da_spot who wrote (52776)	2/24/2022 2:58:27 PM
From: Sun Tzu	2 Recommendations Recommended By ajtj99 da_spot Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97456

This morning my wife said, "I guess today is a good day be to short." I answered, "No, yesterday was a good day to be short. Today I am going to cover all my shorts and go long. Why do you think I was up till late - I was staking out what to buy."

To: da_spot who wrote (52776)	2/24/2022 4:34:17 PM
From: Sun Tzu	5 Recommendations Recommended By ajtj99 da_spot Jacob Snyder roto Sonali Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97456

Your story reminded me of a supposedly true tale from a 1000 years ago: A king gathered his astrologers to divine whether or not he will be victorious in a war he was planning. None could answer him. He had a personal aid who told him about a fortune teller in the market that people believed is good. The kings summons the fortune teller and seeks his opinion. After some pondering, the guy tells him to have no fear as he has no doubts that victory will be his. The king embarks on the battle, and as prophesied, he has total victory and returns with many loots. He scolds his astronomers and promotes the fortune teller to the position of chief astrologer/astronomer. This of course does not sit well with learned men who had studied the stars all their lives. They beseech a world renowned astronomer/astrologer to pitch in. He writes a letter to the king stating that he has consulted his charts and his books and there is no way that anyone could make a divination on the matter of war at that time. So the king asks the same guy who had introduced the fortune teller to him to figure out how he came up with his opinion. The assistant takes the fortuneteller to dinner. Gets him drunk. And brings up the subject. The fortuneteller answers, "It was a simple decision. I knew that if he was victorious, he'd promote me and I'd have good fortune. And if the king had lost, no one would be here to punish me for misreading the stars." Your story and this one are nearly identical. Some things never change <g>