At this point my new 14 month old puppy is neither a puppy, nor new.
But I think we’re already at the point that he’s incapable of learning new tricks.
I, on the other hand, am certainly not a young pup, as the very gray whiskers will attest, but I’ve learned the art of the Tweet.
My wife and sister would like me to learn the Art of Shaving, as my sister recently gave me a gift from a store by the same name.
I may not know when my unkempt appearance warrants a shave, but I do now know the differences between @, # and $.
So, as a veteran Tweeter, I’ve now posted about 29 times on the first day.
Too much?
The only thing is that I’m not certain if Tweeting is somewhat similar to the sound that a fallen tree makes in the forest. In that case, I may never find out if 29 Tweets was too much., but there were already 15 followers.
So far, I seem to have gotten a number of followers who all appear to share a common characteristic. Based on their profile pictures and poses, I would say that they probably spent significant amounts of time in Eastern European truck stops.
We’ll see.
But another new things was suggested by a past newsletter subscriber, and bless him, a purchaser of the OTP book, who asked why I didn’t include charts and tables in the blog to better illustrate the points.
Mt first thought was that charts and tables aren’t that humorous and they require more work.
Then, I also remembered that my wife told me last night that she was funnier than I was.
Hmmm.
So, today I tweeted that while Goldman Sachs was being further bitch slapped by the Senate, it’s price fell about $4 in the opening minutes. That presented a nice opportunity to pick up shares and sell the $155 call options, that happen to expire tomorrow. The net on the transactions would be about $0.80 per share. Granted, that’s only 0.5%, but still, not bad for less than 2 days, with very little additional risk.
So let’s give it a try. Here’s the chart
You know that I’m not a huge fan of technical analysis, but when a solid company drops like that, without real substantive news, it’s often a good opportunity to jump in.
In this case, the options premiums were:
See? I told you these weren’t very funny.
Who knows? Maybe my wife was right. After all, , she did turn out to be right about slavery and heroin.
By the same token, JP Morgan took another hit today as well and I think, represents a good opportunity to pick up shares on the cheap.
Same with Mosaic, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to include more charts today. I’ve seen enough of their somber sorry statistics.
Yeah, let’s see if she’s as able at artful alliteration as am I.
Now, normally I wait until the end of the day to compose the blog, but I was so excited by learning the Tweeting trick that I just couldn’t wait any longer. Were it not for the fact that I have to stay away from salt, I would have shared one of Laszlo’s chicken jerky snacks with him.
But then, I also realized that I should wait to celebrate until I see how that Goldman recommendation works out.
There’s always a new trick to be learned tomorrow.