Screwball

Day trading was a thing at one time. Almost like a cult. Probably in the run up to the dot-com crash. Wall Street the movie came out in 87. Giddy-up!!! In a way, what they do is pretty clever. The software today still has the capability to do what they did. You can watch order flows to a certain extent. They screen up very short term charts and bet huge money on small moves. Many times around support/resistance levels even during the day. Now they call it "high frequency trading" done by HAL 9000 of Wall Street. It actually goes clear back to Jessie Livermore who used to post the stock prices on the wall in the old bucket shop before he became rich and broke 3 times and killed himself. Trends, moves, there is a pattern. You can see them coming. But very very risky. You need balls of steel, and deep pockets would also be good. One headline at the wrong time and you just got a margin call. And some of these people play the leveraged ETF where you can lose money 2 or 3 times as fast. How about that? Giggle.

Thanks. I didn't know what they were doing, but it looked kind of funny. People are always funny. 🙂

One of my favorites, and I'm old. For me, the final game of 1968. Other than the game that became the first date with the most wonderful woman on the planet. ON EDIT: and we almost got a ball.

Wow, what a game! I'm going to ask a dumb question now that it is over. I was somewhat busy so I didn't catch it all (and I usually watch with the sound off), but what I missed was; what was up with the guy in the green shirt sitting by the wall? They kept showing him but I don't know why.

Back in the late 2000s era, the Najarian brothers sold stuff teaching you how to play the option trades. Pete was on CNBC at 5 each night for the show "Fast Money" I think it was. They were both good football players too. Wild ****. And of course CNBC, also known as Bubblevison, still has - Jim Cramer. I won't say you can't make money being a day trader, but you are probably more lucky than good if you do. I played golf with a guy who worked for a cable company and told me how they ran a T1 line to some guys house just so he could day trade. That's nuts. Might have worked, who knows. I'm sure the T1 line did, not sure about the trades. 🙂

Interesting. There was (don't know if this changes) also a limit on the amount of trades in a certain period of time. So many trades in so many days. There is also the agreement between these traders and their brokers and what they will give you for leverage, no matter what they call the account. Typical margin account stuff. Personally, I think is nuts. The history of day traders going broke is long and wide - and they put up 25k to do so because you needed a margin account with some broker to do the trades. What a deal! This is just suckering in more fish to feed the pigmen of Wall Street and the whores they own.

Neat picture. 5 and 6 were pretty good. 😂

Yes, forgot about Frank. Same thing. That stuff matters. If you play everyday and see all these hard throwing farm boys and all of a sudden this dude's serving up grapefruit sized balls - we get great big eyeballs because we are going to hit it over the roof - but we just screwed ourself into the batters box while missing it by about 10 feet. The speed just dicks you up. That's why on doubleheader days they would put a junk-baller game one, and a flame thrower game two, as the belief was they were more tired the second game. As sadists pitchers (established above :-)), I would think the junk ballers get a bigger kick out of making us look stupid because they are throwing junk at us. OK. That's fine. Think what you want. A good hitter fails 7 of 10 times. It's a humbling game. And the greatest game ever. But they keep trying to **** it up.

Our enemy is us, and has been since Moby **** was a minnow.

I won't waste time on charts, but WTI crude is, as I type, $104.95 the S&P (emini futures) are down a tad over 50. Back into the trading range from October of 25.

Baseball was my life for many years. I was a pitcher so my bias is there. I love to watch guys like Skubal. The battle between the pitcher, catcher, and batter (and how we are approaching this matchup), and of course the neutral party - the ump. Now maybe an electronic one. I'm old. I played in the day when they beaned people and didn't think a thing of it. But the game is still the same, they just don't do that anymore. 🙂 I watch the games with the sound off. Skub, with his unhittable stuff is so fun to watch. And he does some incredible stuff working the batters over the course of the game. Sends a guy to the bench a couple of times on low outside change-ups (and a dandy at that), then last at bat, this dude is looking for that pitch again - and he gets a 98 mph 4-seamer inside on the hands. Go sit down big boy. Someone said somewhere in the baseball stuff that pitchers were sadists. Yes, and we want them that way. Their job is to get you out. Period, end of discussion. Skub is a treat to watch. I used to love watching Kenny Rogers. He was the absolute master of his craft IMHO. IIRR, he pitched a beauty in one of Detroit's playoff runs. ON EDIT: forgot this. Skub and Kenny are two entirely kind of pitchers. Skub is a power pitcher, Kenny was a junk baller. Couldn't bust a window.

Rory got it done. Fun to watch. Incredible golf course. Can you imagine the score us mortals would shoot there? I would need someone to deliver a box of golf balls about hole 7.

You can never have enough pitching. Ever. That is all.

Screwing with the Windows 11 Co-Pilot AI dude on a Saturday night. I do 3D printing projects and like to see what my Aussie AI buddy has to say. To understand, we create a 3D modes then give them to a 3D printing machine that "slices" it into layers so it can print a bunch of really neat stuff. Slicing being the key word here. I wanted to know how many parts I could get out of a spool of filament (looks just like weed whacker line), and of course the cost. Just for fun... WTF?

Quite a day in Augusta. Rory... Dude... Not that I'm a fan or not. Just watching. Pissed away a 6 shot lead. He's going back to the hotel thinking WTF did I just do. Tomorrow should be interesting. I think there was an old saying about the back 9 on the final day. I would love to walk around that course. I would never have enough money to play it, and the waiting list for Master's tickets are probably longer than I will be alive. What a beautiful place.