tampa's "short skirt" trades...

Tampa, are you really trading? I thought you were just digging up humorous ideas about trading to write a book or column. If you are really trying to trade I'm sure someone here will help you.

~EC

 

I've picked up any number of ideas here at ET none of them were good for laughs, but several were good for Margin Calls. The wife, in particular, saw no humor in those.

 

I did the math, and I just can’t afford Murrey and his Math right now – maybe after I pay off the margin calls and get the electricity turned back on, but not right now, you know what I mean? So in consultation with several Elite Trader members via PM, and Zelda, a well known soothsayer, and a woman of good reputation in my area, I have decide to follow the work of Jake Bernstein, who I understand has a book I can read.

Well this is what happened.

(ring, ring)
Clerk Hello, Tampa Book Store, how may I help you?
tampa oh hi, I’d like to order the Jake Bernstein book, please.
Clerk ah, he has a number of titles available, which one did you have in mind, sir?
tampa A number of them? Well, send me one of each, please...

Within the hour, an Ailed Moving van pulls up, three guys spend the next two hours unloading 863 books!

A “number of titles” turned out to be somewhat of an understatement, to say the least. This Bernstein fella must have been the inspiration for The Book of the Month Club! And some of them are kind of old -Gothenburg himself printed three of them.

So I’ve got books everywhere – the kitchen, the hallway, even some on the front porch. It’s starting to get dark before I drag the last box up to my office and arrange them on the bookshelf – which promptly collapsed from the weight!


Aside from cleaning up the mess, I guess I’ve got some reading to do this weekend. Of course I’ll let you know how it goes

 

I believe you mean Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press.

 

Sbell it anyway you want to, Mister Smarty-Pants - I've still got 604 of Jake's books to read before the market opens on Monday - I'm too busy to be bothered with nit-picking details.

 

A while back there was a thread on thinking like a Champion. Well I’m not much into the sports thing, so I don’t really know who is or isn’t a champion. But I’m watching the tube, and there’s this story about some chick ice skater – I think her name was Tonya Harding or something. Like I said, sports ain’t my thing, so I go on the web to do a search on her – to see if I can find our how she thinks.

I found a ton of stuff, and you know, I think some of it could apply to trading. Right now I’m trying to locate a couple of guys in Chicago to go down to the S&P pits, and start bashing floor traders in the knees with a lead pipe.

I mean if two guts named Vito and Vinny start knocking you in the knees with a big pipe, it ain’t gonna put you in a buying mood – know what I mean?

So if I arrange with the “boys” to hit the pit about 10:15, and I go short just a few minutes before – are we talking big bucks, or what?

Thanx to who ever it was who started that Think Like a Champion thread. It really gave me some good ideas.

 

Well I’ve read 278 of Jake’s 863 books so far, and I am very, very impressed! His work on seasonal tendencies in Bermuda Onion pries is remarkable – it alone is worth the $43,206.75 I paid for the complete set.

Excuse me, the phone is ringing – BRB

That was the clerk from the bookstore – Jake has just published three more books, and she wanted to know if I’d be interested.

Anyway, his cyclical work in Oats is just short of mind-boggling. So good in fact that I called in an order to buy 25 at the market. Unfortunately, they told me that the old guy who trades Oats on the CBOT is out sick today – they said I should call back in a few days.

But I am having a little trouble getting historical charts on Onions (hmm, wonder if Jake’s office sells them?) – or even finding the symbol. Can anyone tell me the symbol for the March 2003 Bermuda Onion contract? Thanx, in advance.

Oh crap, I just missed a good trade in the NQ while I was writing this post...

 

BUM`Z
(bermuda union march)
hope this helps

 

Is this a great board, or what? Traders Helping Traders, that’s what ET is all about!

 

My search for a couple of “boys” in Chicago has gone nowhere. Damn. It was such a good ides. In the mean time, things on the home front have turned from bad to worse. The wife found last month’s brokerage statement – she just about had a conniption. And then she starts crying, and pulling her hair out- it was really, really ugly.

I tried to tell her that losses are part of trading, and then she starts cursing and breaking dishes and she even overturned the couch before I was able to wrestle her to the floor.

She’s calmed down now. In fact, she even agreed to sell a pint or two of blood to raise some money to get the power turned back on.

If only we had some kids (sigh).
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