i’m back to blogging as you can see by reading this post. my first act, aside from rebuilding the blog, is to participate in the Ticker Sense blogger sentiment poll that takes place every week. the guess is for what bloggers think about the S&P500 for the next 30 days. i will never choose neutral. you know my pick - about ten minutes ago i answered the poll for next week. though i can’t prove it to you, i’ve been short-term bullish since march 24th and now i’m over it. i think the current bull move is extended and will roll over shortly, but then again i could be way off.
comments are allowed upon my return in case you haven’t noticed. have your say, but try to keep it civil. though i can cuss like a sailor (i once was one), i try real hard not to do that here as some of my pg friends and family read this blog.
in a nod to my friend mike over at hedgefolios i have decided to type this post in lower case. why?, because that’s how we format our e-mails to each other and i’ve actually grown to like the format a lot. i can let my fingers type almost as fast as the thoughts pop into my head without having to worry about… doesn’t matter. i’m not trying to sell you on the idea. i like it, that’s all.
i used to ramble about the economy and the stock market to the exclusion of everything else. i even had a subscriber section attached to this site for awhile last year but was immediately tired of having to stick to a schedule for my blogging. my writing is a hobby more than anything else, though i really enjoy the fact that my writing has made me a little money through the sale of a book that i wrote for newlyweds, still available via the link in the sidebar. yes, it has proper grammar and capitalization in it.
what is different about this blog now, along with more beer and running stories, is that i will no longer criticize other market pundits, unless they say something especially egregious about the average joe like one particular shill did last summer. i knew this guy would be proven wrong and so did the little guy. i just have a few words for mr. shill that i have to put in an acronym to live up to my pledge of no cussing on the blog - stfu
on a positive note, as i said, i am only going to ramble away about my brewing, my training in preparation for the gasparilla distance classic 15k, and some market and economic commentary peppered with lots of sarcasm. and there will be no particular schedule to things i say or want to talk about here.
if readership grows, which i doubt because i seem to have the same 300 readers no matter where i go or how long i stay at this activity, then we’ll see what becomes of this blog as i go along.
happy trading.
happy trails.
and
relax, have a homebrew.
the next post to this blog will not have any commas, and may also be in lower case.