Can't Buy Me Love

For a mere $9/day you too can ruin your life so bad a billion can't save it.

One is too many and a thousand is not enough! -Alcoholism - see also Gluttony and Greed

Just because you haven't met the one yet doesn't mean you will...

A digital twin, but just for when your wife comes over drunk and in pajamas.

I got 99 problems, but none of them is your major problem of not knowing what your major problem is.

You're gonna freeze your tootsies!
-Me, flirting with my cat because she always comes out to hang, even in the freezing cold while I'm shovelling snow, then I got that weird somebody's watching me feeling. Looked up and a lovely blonde was walking down the sidewalk, giving me The Gen Z Stare. So... Yeah. It's a thing!

The fact that ChatGPT turned out to be Chucky from Child's Play only verifies their original design, #AmIRight?

To summarize:

  • If fully invested, raise cash to 30-50% of portfolio value, now => 2026
  • 130/30 rule: Trade accounts so annual gross proceeds are ~130% of acct value. Put 30% in high yielding bonds and value stock ETFs.
  • Sell your winners (>30K profit, >30% return) and let losers run - e.g. rotate gains to lower P/E stocks with CFRA 4-5 star ratings that have underperformed and represent moat-like industries, like consumer brands, financials, insurance and REITs. Can't resist holding positions up more than 30K or 30%, then sell covered CALL options. In short, please take/lock-in big gains is my advice. Never be caught swimming naked when the tide goes out. -Warren Buffett
  • When markets bottom or heat up, trade into stocks/ETFs that double every 5 years (e.g. QLD, SPHB). Otherwise, stay neutral, rotating to and holding positions that double every 10 years, which is more like S&P's historic average.
  • SLV ETF - silver is the new gold but with greater industrial, investor and reserve bank potential.
  • DO NOT SHORT - it only works for the most inside insiders... If you can't resist trying to trade the market down, sell PUT options at prices 20-40% below peak/current prices as those get back into stocks under better timing - at/near bottoms.
  • Mike Santoli (CNBC): A broadening market is not a safer market [except for sell your winners and let your losers run traders/rotators]
  • There may be a liquidity/money-supply situation (see also falling workforce participation) building into 2026/7 (or being engineered) and that's almost always bad for stocks and imo explains government's obsession with cbdc/crypto as a dollar alternative asset class. See also the emerging silver/gold standard under BRIC. $USD has a failing chance, now more than ever, of remaining the world's reserve currency for international settling.

That time MAGA transfigured into AI, war, more war, stimulus checks, rate cuts, endless debt, Trump watches, Trump crypto and TrumpRX...

Data points to 1995 as the Fourth Turning and 2005 as the beginning of a point of no return... (Note that QE/Too-Big-To-Fail was 2007-08)

Broken markets rise at the open (futures) then close down. You have been warned!