Many of you reading this today are familiar with the idea of Seasonality when it comes to the stock market. For those not familiar, markets have seasonal tendencies that often play out but not always. For example, November through January tends to be the...

Our brains are so big that we can think up all kinds of clever schemes to fool ourselves and so we do just that. Maybe we don’t want to face failure or a good thing went bad or there’s something about ourselves we don’t like or the inevitability of death...

If you can find an exercise that you enjoy, you will feel great, you will stay healthy longer, and you will have fun doing it. Maybe it was something you used to do when you were younger but then it got away from you as you got busy with adult things or...

Everybody is so busy in this country it is killing us.  We wear this busyness like a badge of honor and we don’t even realize it. Busy busy busy. You have to be busy because everybody else is so busy. It’s kinetic. It’s mimetic. Or maybe it’s just the...

Last week, I wrote about wisdom and cynicism. TLDR – you can’t have both.  Today, I’m writing about wisdom and time. My friend Brian wrote the book on multiple timeframe technical analysis for traders. Here’s a photo of my copy… The gist is...

I took the idea of Intermittent Fasting and applied it to my phone. I call it Digital Intermittent Fasting and I’ve been doing it on the weekends as a way to disconnect from the stupid 247365 noise spigot and endless doom scroll treadmill. Too much of...

People make things too complicated and the costs can be very high in terms of time, energy, headaches, unforced errors etc. This all begins with a false truth – the world is complicated – which leads to a false conclusion – solutions must...

Today marks five years since I’ve used alcohol or drugs. I am forever grateful to my wife and two boys. Here are five things I’ve learned so far. 1. I will never be a drinker or drug user again.  It’s over. I’m good with it. I bring this up because...

Here’s one for people who want to start getting healthy today but don’t know where to begin or are having some trouble getting going. There is a lot of information out there and a lot of it is complicated or contradictory. The first thing to know is that...

I notice that sometimes financial journalists and newsletter writers give good advice at the worst possible time in the stock market. I saw a few of these finger wagging missives near the bottom of what was a 23% drawdown in the Nasdaq 100 and a 19%...