Quote from falconview:
A book is slowing down my learning process????
Sheeeesh! My equity balance will STOP my learning process before I could even get a book here in the boondocks of Central America. Im nearly to the stopping point now on my equity balance.
My daughter got a new laptop repaired on warranty for me recently, when she returned to Houston from here. About 3 weeks later she says she got it repaired and it is at her home in Houston and she is using it. Her daughter, my granddaughter will be coming down in about 8 or 9 weeks to work an internship at the USA Embassy, she will bring it at that time. THAT IS FAST SERVICE INTERNATIONALLY. You got any REAL IDEA, how many months it would take a book sent by mail to reach me? It would take 3 weeks alone, within the country here, to get to my rural location. About two weeks to get inside the country here from USA. This is not the land of FED EX, etc. Priority mail, etc. The pony express was faster than mail here. Think mule, or dugout paddling canoe. Think in changes of the moon, for time to get a book here.
I started with $5000, last June. Through a subterfuge and double dealing, went around my wife and got it doubled to $10,000. She wouldn´t let me try $300,000. On my first trade, I got snookered and haven´t recovered since. I´ve been hovering between $2000 and $1000 in the hole since. Never could get back to $10,000, though got within the mid $8000 range a couple of times. Right now I´m seriously considering throwing in the towel. It has been a lot of fun, a learning process. Darned if I know what I would do with myself if I didn´t have this fun to look forward too. At 75 years, you don´t go spearfishing anymore, or sailing racing catamarans. The old age will not let you. The physical body sets limitations. I do enjoy reading two books a day, beside this computer jazz. ( got libraries and have read the OATMEAL cylinder a zillion times ) Be sad to give this trading stuff up. But it´s ten months now and I´m down about $2800 from the original $10,000. Fair enough fee for the fun and education, but the declining balance has me worried. This is not the way the game is supposed to work out. I´m a results profit orientated type person and there seems to be no profit in this for me anyway. At least the monetary kind.
If someone was to mail me the book by express, priority mail, I might get it in 3 weeks at the earliest expectation. Otherwise I´m dealing with months. Probably get a hold of it eventually.
Living third world is nice, comfortable and far cheaper than the USA. About 1/5 th the cost, at several levels above what one could afford in the USA. Servants and all that jazz. But getting something from the USA, paaah! Figure two or three months at the earliest.
