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Slow Earnings........

As is typical of this time of year, from now til the end of the year is slow for earnings. There are a few things that may looking interesting coming up, but I'm not neglecting the blog - there just isnt anything to play.

Unravel me
a distant cord
on the outside is forgotten
a constant need

To get along
and the animal awakens
and all I feel is black and white

The road is long
the memory slides
to the whole of my undoing
put aside
I put away
I push it back to get through each day
and all I feel is black and white
and I'm wound up small and tight
and I don't know who I am

Everybody loves you when you're easy
everybody hates when you're a bore
everyone is waiting for your entrance so
don't disappoint them

Unravel me
untie this chord
the very center of our union
is caving in
I can't endure
I am the archive of our failure

And all I feel is black and white
and I'm wound up small and tight
and I don't know who I am

Everybody loves you when you're easy
everybody hates when you're a bore
everyone is waiting for your entrance so
don't disappoint them

Everybody loves you when you're easy so
don't disappoint them

Don't disappoint them...

****Sarah McLaughlin

Trades for Thursday 12/21/07

Closing Trades:
BC CMC for $0.50

All the others worked as well.


For the close today:

Considering shorts for
WOR @ 18.35
WGO
AM

xox

Trades for Wednesday 12/18/07

Finally some action!!!!!

Considering the following to short at the close today....

DRI
KMX
CMC @ 29.60

xox

Trades for Thursday 11/?/07

BC HRB for $0.50
BC COO for $0.50


Nothing to fit the strategy today..........

xox

Stumbled Upon Lyrics.....

"Tears And Rain"

How I wish I could surrender my soul;
Shed the clothes that become my skin;
See the liar that burns within my needing.
How I wish I'd chosen darkness from cold.
How I wish I had screamed out loud,
Instead I've found no meaning.

I guess it's time I run far, far away; find comfort in pain,
All pleasure's the same: it just keeps me from trouble.
Hides my true shape, like Dorian Gray.
I've heard what they say, but I'm not here for trouble.
It's more than just words: it's just tears and rain.

How I wish I could walk through the doors of my mind;
Hold memory close at hand,
Help me understand the years.
How I wish I could choose between Heaven and Hell.
How I wish I would save my soul.
I'm so cold from fear.

I guess it's time I run far, far away; find comfort in pain,
All pleasure's the same: it just keeps me from trouble.
Hides my true shape, like Dorian Gray.
I've heard what they say, but I'm not here for trouble.
Far, far away; find comfort in pain.
All pleasure's the same: it just keeps me from trouble.
It's more than just words: it's just tears and rain.

Tears and Rain.

Tears and Rain.

Far, far away; find comfort in pain,
All pleasure's the same: it just keeps me from trouble.
It's more than just words: it's just tears and rain.

-----James Blunt

Trades for Wednesday 12/12/07

BC NCS for $0.50



For the close:
SS COO


Still short HRB - lmt for $0.50

xox

Do You Know What Books Are In Your Child's School Library?

In Zev's class, Wednesday's are library day.  Zev loves library day, and when I pick him up from school on library day, he enjoys looking at the book he borrowed on the way home in the car.  I'm usually regaled with "Look at this mommy - look at that mommy!" Usually the books he picks are about sports or Korea or science.  I enjoy it because I love to see him develop his own interests and get excited about what he learns.

Well, this Wednesday, Zevi gets in the car, and as Im pulling out of the school parking lot, he says, "Mommy!  When you get old your breast will hang low!!!"  My immediate reaction was, "OMG - what book do you have, kid??"

Lo and behold, said book is called It's So Amazing!  On the  whole, not a bad book.  Im pretty open about such subjects with Zev, and he knows, in theory, how babies are made and how they come out (we prepared him to be there with us during my delivery of Ami, so he saw the birthing  videos.) And we read the book together over the course of the following days.  Here's my problem though.......

The book says that its for ages 7 and up, and its geared toward children, true, however, I don't think it should be readily available to kids.  If a parent requests it, thats cool...but a child shouldn't just be able to get the book off the shelf.  I made a fuss about Imma On The Bimah, should I make a fuss about this one too? 

PS: Yes, Jewish Day School.  Yes, pics from the book. 

Trades for Tuesday 12/11/07

For the close.........

SS HRB
SS NCS


And they allllllll fffffffffaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllll down.

xox

A Vote of No Confidence......

So I announced the other night that I would be attempting to make latkes and I awoke to this sign:





Ok - so i admit that I'm not the best cook in the world by any stretch of the imagination....but look how they came out!!!




And the house is still standing!!!!

Happy chanuka everyone!

xox

Trading Last Week.......

There was absolutely nothing to trade per the strategy (slow earnings season)...however, I continue to be short XHB.

There seems to be a few possibilities for the coming week.....stay tuned!

xox

Trades for the Week of 11/26-11/30

For my own records....I havent traded this week between computer issues and working on the other project. But here are the picks for the strategy this week:

Monday(11/26):
NONE

Tuesday(11/27):
NONE

Wednesday (11/28):
at the close...
SS DBRN
SS PBY
SS CBRL

Thursday (11/29):
at the close....
SS FRED
SS GCO

Friday (11/30):
SS MENT

I look to grab 40 cents - everything was good - but still waiting for MENT.

xox