Sunday, April 12, 2026

The Golden Hour

 




Into Great Silence by Eva Saulitis

From Wiki:

Eva Lucia Saulitis (LatvianEva Lūcija Saulītis; May 10, 1963 – January 16, 2016) was an American marine biologist and poet, based in Homer, Alaska. With a career spanning decades, she primarily focused her research on marine life and environmental impacts. Her contributions to and passion for environmental research and conservation can be seen woven into her books and poetry. By blending her love of nature with her artistic ability, her texts have received notable recognition.

The image is a link to Abe Books

(I'm not monetized)


Sixteen hours before the Valdez struck Bligh Reef, fisherwoman Rikki Ott (her website) testified to the Mayor's Oil Action Committee in Valdez argued for more industry oversight and disaster preparation (p. 60). Her Wiki page.



https://dec.alaska.gov/water/water-quality/evos-lingering-oil/






Saturday, April 11, 2026

Jenna McClintock, Ballerina

Early exposure to ballet triggered unbridled enthusiasm when I chanced upon Marta Becket's Armagosa Opera House outside Death Valley.

Ms. Becket was 91 in 2016 and I could not get an audience. Jenna was dancing frequently and the experience was magical. Here's a link to my blogpost with some details.

A few days ago randycofer-r3n8i left an appreciative comment on the Youtube video I made of Jenna dancing. It is one of the amazing things about travel...stumbling upon artistry and beauty.


Here she is dancing her original work, Bailar.




Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Enough

Lack of greed has continually kept me from making as much as I could've. I've repeatedly sold too soon, when I thought enough was enough. But I admit that it's been hard to watch sums that could've been mine disappear.

Anticipating a surge, I began watching when the pre-market trading began at 2 a.m. I can't trade in the After Market, but I can in the pre-market and I've usually done well. But as I watched the climb from $63 - 66.72, I decided, at 4 a.m., to wait.

The drop had begun from 72.00. When I awoke at 11:30 it was at 67.66. At 67.74, with the day's increase at 19.81%, I sold. The auto pilot bumped me up to 67.75 and I made an additional $0.66. 

I've yet to determine my profit, but it was William J. O'Neil wwho advised selling at the 20% mark.


Tapping the image will, as will the link above, take you to the Amazon site. (i'm not "monetized." It's a good book. Most libraries have a copy. For real-time insight, check out Haley Zhao's LEGS Meetup.)





I recouped the $600 loss when ZEPP plummeted and a few more. Enough.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Return of SOXL

I'm not gonna say I'm inured, but after more than six months of close observation, I have a (small) level of confidence. This is the third "drop" I've followed down, running out of money well above the lowest price. My hope is, of course, the next time!🤑


12:26 p.m. (no sleeping through this one)


It continued to $39.37.

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9 p.m. today

I thought I'd see how things were going



Open P&L is from when I opened the account in January of last year. I was a little over $700.00 ahead when this drop began and about $1,500.00 ahead for the 15 months of trading.

Poor as I am, I can't really afford to lose and have regularly pulled off my meager gains. As a means of containing myself, I've kept my trading amount around $3,000.00. This time I went to $4,200.00.

It began on Feb, 27th at a little over $73.00/share. Previous weeks had seen drops of $2 - $4 and I had been making small amounts of $40 - $70.

As the drop continued, I added an additional $1,200.00 and made my last purchase, when I ran out of money, at $52.75. I sometimes suspect I am an average player and the powers-that-be know exactly when to shear the sheep. 

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At 1:24 a.m. Weds

$94.00 profit after

 five weeks of not being to trade

when I was averaging $100/wk.





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What it looks like



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Seeing the number of transactions for

hundreds of thousands of shares prompts:

there's a lot of wealth out there.

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April 8, 3:35 a.m.



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After each drop it's risen beyond its prev high, in this instance $72.36. We're still a ways from there, but it went up over $10.00 this morning so Imma hold.

Common Thrasher