Coffee, the miracle liquid...

After Bob's stroke, his personality has become very mellow. He doesn't take any medications that slow him down. People are misinterpreting Bob's mellowness for not being "with" it.

Bob drank an entire pot of coffee before his stroke, but after his stroke he'd drink maybe one or two in the morning. I don't drink coffee, so I don't know the "real" effects that it has on the body. I can only observe the increased speed in the drinker's movements and speech. However, I believe it is a under-estimated drug. A friend of ours suggested giving Bob an entire pot of coffee again to see if that would wind Bob up. So, I did that very thing everyday this week. And, amazingly enough, it worked. Bob was thinking and talking normally. He wasn't as mellow.

An expert is right under my nose...

When it comes to trading commodities, Bob is so good. Every time I predict the markets to move one direction, because of the weather or something else in the news, news we get before the rest of the world, the market moves the opposite direction. However!, however!, when Bob predicts a move direction, he's right - dag-nabbit! I guess I'm still learning. I should pay attention to the expert right in front of me; instead, of trying to do what the gurus are saying on the Internet.

T and I will be a good team someday. :-)

logical sense....

This trading commodities idea is baffling. However, I had an email from a reader, who has traded for thirty years, give me a good analogy. He said that wondering what the markets will do each day is like a dancer anticipating what their partner's next move is going to be. Now, since I was a ballroom dance instructor for ten years, I can relate to this comparison. You see, in ballroom dancing, the male partner is the lead. He decides what the next dance move will be. I, being the follower, had to decipher his signal and move how he wanted. You do this without saying a word.

Same for the markets. I'm learning to decipher the charts: watching the prices, number of buyers and sellers, and the news, then, following their lead.

There my logical mind just made sense of an abstract concept!