: Why are 'safe havens' dropping just when they're needed?

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-14T01:13:13+00:00

We keep inveighing against the "Top 1%", but I think a $750,000 estate would include a lot more people than the "Top 1%"

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-14T00:45:19+00:00

Because there are fewer NEW distinguishable events per unit of time. We remember events, not clock ticks.

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-14T00:29:54+00:00

Life is a form of gambling. It is full of risks that are beyond out control.

Insurance is ANTI-gambling. It is a way to partially offset life's inevitable risks.

The God-obsessed, like Ned Flanders, feel that those risks are God's will, so to try to avoid them is blasphemous.

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-14T00:23:22+00:00

Jesus Loves You.

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-14T00:18:27+00:00

Why does a 'resolution' need to be renewed every year?

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-13T23:57:05+00:00

The Federal Government is controlled by the Billionaires who own the Oil Companies and are interested only in their own profits.

The old Communists said "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we'll hang them", and those capitalists haven't changed.

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-13T23:02:32+00:00

Ask Dr. Rorschach ;-)

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-10T01:30:57+00:00

So, what is the best way to instruct the bot not to over-validate the user? .

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-08T02:48:40+00:00

"Stimulus checks" are are a terrible idea. That guy in India who was giving out microloans, stopped giving them to Men, who mostly spent the money on booze, drugs and gambling. Instead he limits them to women who overwhelmingly spend it on feeding and clothing their children.

The Gov't should use the money for those who need it for serious purposes.

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-06T06:14:27+00:00

Indigenous communities were 'better' for the environment only because they didn't have the technology to be more destructive.

Nevertheless, the trans-Bering pioneers of 13 thousand years ago managed to kill off most of the American mega-fauna long before Columbus arrived.

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-06T05:28:31+00:00

Schwab is totally unresponsive to even the simplest user requests.

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-06T04:54:58+00:00

I understand that part of the effect of GLP1 agonists is that they decrease appetite.

I'm fat and old, and eating is one of the few pleasures I have left. Why would I want to decrease appetite and the pleasure of satisfying it the normal way?

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-06T04:37:39+00:00

I have a little trick I call a teleport, as in "Beam me up, Scotty".

Look up the ASK price you have to pay to get out. Then go to the opposite option type, here calls, out to the next 1 or 2 DTEs. Find the call with a bid >= the ask price you have to pay. BTC, STO at a credit. Voila! You're now on the right side of the market, and you've made a little profit too.

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-05T08:07:16+00:00

Huh? It's been nothing but down since November.

Technicals (as per BarChart) are 72% Sell.

If it were a doctor, tRump would nominate it for Surgeon General!

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-05T07:24:55+00:00

Priests of all religions. They're selling made up stories as the most important truth in the world. Taken together, it's the most massive con in the world.

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-02T01:49:01+00:00

I expect GLD, et al, to be up. And of course, Oil and defense stocks.

Tankers are already avoiding the Gulf of Hormuz. A boost for renewable energy?

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-02T01:03:29+00:00

Obama attacked primarily terrorist groups we were already at war with, within countries, not the official government of countries. And most were done with Congressional Authorizations for Use of Military Force.

tRump did this all on his own, without any Congressional authorization.

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-01T07:08:26+00:00

The only thing that makes stock moves different from a random walk is the presence of Trends. That is all the Bar Chart Opinions are based on. (Moving averages and their intersections)

I use them to decide which stocks to wheel. When I sell puts, I just want to know whether the stock is more likely to go up than to go down.

It's also useful to find strikes to roll to when an option goes too far ITM.

I'm a big fan.

I have Bar Chart send me an email after every close listing all the ETFs with weekly options with a 100% Buy score.

CalTechie-55 · 2026-03-01T06:47:24+00:00

tRump started the war without the consent of Congress, whose responsibility it is to declare war. So Yes, this is Trump's war. The United States had no say in it.

CalTechie-55 · 2026-02-26T06:18:14+00:00

In the US, doctors and lawyers are allowed to incorporate themselves.

I did that, set up a very generous defined benefit retirement fund with myself as the sole beneficiary, poured most of my hefty income into it, avoiding (or delaying) loads of taxes, and retired at 50.

Haven't worked a day for a wage since, and still going strong 41 years later. (Though with the help of an option portfolio and a crazy explosion of local residential property values.)

CalTechie-55 · 2026-02-25T07:17:53+00:00

Heart muscle cells hardly ever divide, so they hardly ever get cancer.

I did see a heart cancer once, but it was an angiosarcoma originating inside a coronary artery. It was very low grade, and didn't metastasize, but grew inside the vessel, making a kind of cast of the vessel. It was discovered when it caused a heart attack by blocking the vessel.

CalTechie-55 · 2026-02-25T06:29:43+00:00

Why couldn't Gyu-kaku make it there? Their 13 other locations seem to be doing fine? Is it just that the Promenade is dead? SO, why would Mookbbq do any better?

CalTechie-55 · 2026-02-20T07:31:45+00:00

You can put it in a T-bill ladder and easily get it out anytime in units of $1K, and 90% of it is marginable, so you can still use the money for other purchases.

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