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Something I used to do quite often was to pick a stock, then print out 4 columns of numbers for a months trading. The open, close high and low. Then I would take this list and write down everthing I could think of about these four columns of numbers.
I used to shoot for at least ten things.
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Anyways, that's not my point. My point is, now when I have a problem with anything, I just get a blank sheet of paper, and when I have a problem, write down everything I know about the problem. Solutions, magically appear.
A spiral bound notebook is my best friend. Five years ago I ran aground and lost everything. So every morning I started with a clean sheet of paper and would write down everything I needed and wanted and what I needed to do to get there. It worked like magic. Writing things down gives your mind complete clarity about what needs to be done.
Now, back to your columns of numbers for stocks - Do you still do that? I did that for a while, except I printed several sheets of paper for about 2 1/2 years of trading. The reason I did it was to give me a different perspective than what charts give. I didn't do it very long before I gave it up, it was a little too time consuming. It's always been in the back of my mind though, and I often wonder if I should get back to it.
No I haven't done it in a while. I was trading different at the time and was just seeing what I could see. I think if I did it again, at the top of the page I would write down the option strike price (with high OI) at the top and watch how the stock moved around expiry looking for entry or exits.
My mother was a troll. Yuppers, not an internet troll but an in person troll. Her favorite people to troll were lawyers. I'll give you an example.
I'd take her to some touristy area, just for the day, have lunch and spend time in shops. So one day we are in a gift shop, I look for her and she is gone. Not in the store, not anywhere outside, not in the bathroom...just gone.
I check a few neighboring shops on either side..no ma. I'm not worried, I know she;ll turn up so I sit on a bench outside and wait.
!/2 hour later here she comes out of a door between shops. I said "Where were you?" She hands me a card and it has a lawyers name on it. She went in and was talking to him about the time she got rear ended by a drunk driver in a mall parking lot 25 years before.
Ma has told this story to dozens of lawyers, the case was resolved 24 years ago (no one was drunk) but she keeps using up her "free consultation" with any lawyer who'll give her an appointment.
She has a bag full of important looking documents.
Part two......
When she gets bored with her DD case. She seeks out lawyers for a name change. this is usually a pretty cheap legal process and she has 4 names that I know about.
Ma is 80 now and sharp as a whip, not as mobile and she doesn't troll anymore..but those were the days....
Fyi..she has trolled financial planners and doctors. She would go see a doctor then go to the lawyer and tell him she wants to sue the doctor,,then tell the financial planner she is coming into big money.
,,open up an account for some lame amount of money and buy some Ford stock (her first job was at Fords).