Author: Lawrence Chan

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TLC Weekly Update February 17, 2024

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Option expiration Friday stuck in range after another economic data came out stronger than expected. Obviously, it is not enough to cause any serious damage to the indices. Again, without some sort of event triggering fear, the animal spirit of the bulls will keep the stock market from dropping much.

Interesting discussion about bitcoin on David Lin’s show since the introduction of bitcoin ETFs. I wonder what the average investors would do going forward. If everyone is adding bitcoin ETFs to one’s portfolio in small quantity can have huge impact on the price of bitcoin for sure …

Some people compare bitcoin with gold like what you see in the video. I do not have a strong opinion about that myself. But, keep in mind that if there is no internet or a functioning power grid, there is no crypto currencies, while having a gold bar physically will still be a gold bar that you can carry around and make deals with it.

Astrologers on YouTube are all jumping in on the topic of a very rare astrological setup where many planets are all moving into Aquarius this month. Here is one such video trying to dissect the meaning of this interesting pattern in the sky that none of us who are alive have seen this.

I tried to avoid discussion of religion here in my blog because it is a taboo subject that attracts very divided opinions. This time, however, I am making an exception to link to this video of Tammy Peterson and her experience of recovering from her cancer. From my personal experience, which is many times what normal people would have, including doctors, in terms of seeing people dying, that such miracles do occur all the time and almost everyone of them involves the Rosary or some other forms of prayers.

Coming Monday is a US holiday which is great for me to catch up with my work and emails.

Have a great weekend all!

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TLC Weekly Update February 10, 2024

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Another week of S&P500 edging out a new high again but this time without Dow Jones Industrial Average doing the same. So where are we heading from here, you may ask. My guess is that FOMO is in full force now, so every small dip will be bought and when we run out of buyers, this melt up will turn into melt down.

David Hunter suddenly show up on my regular YouTube browsing. First of the 2 part interview can be found here. As a so-called contrarian, his view is always controversial. But then listening to what others are paying attention to can help one develop a more comprehensive view of the market environment we are facing. After all, markets are made of people.

Bryan Johnson has a new video on how he managed to regrow his hair. Personally I would not go that distance to regrow my hair. Maybe just the red light part so that I don’t lose as much that quickly… the more fascinating thing to me is that those products he listed in the video are all sold out now. The power of these super star influencers is amazing.

The latest rage in the stock market now are AI stocks. This interview of Alexander Wang can help many people who have no idea what “real” AI companies are to understand what kind of problems these companies are solving. My take is that those existing public companies claiming their AI involvement is no different from what happened back in 1999-2000 where all those scams claiming they are part of the internet revolution …

If you are a man who are reasonably fit but somehow not full of energy and can get tired quite easily, watch this short clip. Proper intervention without medications can make a huge difference in your life.

Lately I am tasked to look into some very exotic financial markets to see if my team can build trading algos for them. I can say that it is a real challenge and I like it. So back to work for me as usual.

Happy Chinese New Year!

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TLC Weekly Update February 3, 2024

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Another Non-Farm Payroll week ended to close at all time high for the S&P500. Now that the stock market has gone straight up for many weeks, a correction is due. However, the bears are still very loud proclaiming a crash is coming. Maybe, they must be crushed into hiding first.

As usual I have no idea where the market is heading next until my STOPD rules are triggered.

Now that we are seeing riots and protests happening everywhere worldwide, the message from Neil Howe is worth watching again. The trend developing now will shape the future so knowing what to expect is useful for our personal planning.

Finally a good long discussion of the hidden risks of meditation. Even though I am a life long meditator, I don’t usually tell people casually to practice meditation. Instead, I recommend people to do breathing exercises first so that they have a proper foundation before they attempt meditation.

I find this interesting video talking about the Royal DNAs. Fascinating history lessons indeed. Why I smell a conspiracy theory in the making here …

This coming Sunday around 3 am Eastern Time is the official start of the next solar year. It is also the official start of the 9th (also last) phase of the Chinese feng shui 180 years cycle. I suspect something surreal will happen starting this week.

Have a great weekend all!

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TLC Weekly Update January 27, 2024

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Another week the US stock market closing higher and it looks like January will close positively by next week if FOMC does not want to ruin the bull party. But who knows. Given the geopolitical mess we are seeing everywhere … we just don’t know when and where a shock may happen to upset the current bullish outlook.

Here is a video trying to piece together the economy of the Roman Empire. The focus of the video is to compare the Roman Empire’s GDP against the modern era USA. This comparison makes no sense as technologies we have nowadays did not exist say, just 200 years ago or even just 100 years ago.

For those who are concerned about the current economic conditions and what may happen this year, here is Gundlach discussing his take with Charles Payne. His takes on the situation may not agree with what the MSMs are saying.

I find this interview of Patrick Boyle very interesting. He talks about the past how hedge funds are so different from the modern day version of them. He also touches on quite a number of interesting subjects. Hope you enjoy this.

As someone who eats eggs almost everyday, here is a video talking about eggs that tried to settle the arguments around the quality and taste of eggs across all kinds of eggs. I do not agree with the conclusion of the video because I know a lot about eggs and the studies he quoted are not done properly. Why? Industrialized high-end eggs offered by big companies are just another elaborate scheme to make more money from the “organic” movement.

Back to work now.

Have a great weekend all!

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My Predictions of this Pluto in Aquarius Era Starting 2024

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While I am waiting for my team to restore our servers thanks to some hackers trashed them over the weekend, I have some time on hand and I think I must write this piece to explain what it really means, given my background in Chinese astrology. I think many astrologers on the internet misinterpret the meanings of Pluto moving into Aquarius. In short they got it all wrong.

At the same time, I am going to trash the Chinese astrologers too because they also read the 9th phase of the 180 years feng shui cycle wrong. Only rarely, I see some of these masters showing a clear sign of holding back their views and hinted that the main stream views may be too rosy.

Pluto is the destroyer of everything that it touches. Pluto is the name of the Roman god who ruled the underworld. And his former name in Greek mythology is Hades. Pluto brings destruction and will lead to major changes after the destruction is completed.

With Aquarius being an air sign and that it rules technology and community, it is obviously that from now on, for 20 years, the air related technologies like airplanes will be in so much trouble that people will no longer be able to fly on them after the first half of this transit. The interesting thing with this direct interpretation is that it matches the feng shui 9th phase trigram meaning, separation.

So beware of more accidents with flying, more flights getting grounded and that being stuck at a remote location from your home and can’t go back due to airplane problems will become the norm.

Another clear direct interpretation points to the internet because it is the technology that created a global community. But that will change. The disruptive nature of Pluto will likely destroy this trend with the world getting less connected as a minimum and the potential of the whole concept of internet will be destroyed and replaced by something else.

And also in a general way, all technologies will be in some form of difficulties. I can see this happening because all these big companies force upon us with auto updates of our cell phones, our TVs and computers. All it takes is these companies are no longer around, or, the internet is broken enough, then all your tech based equipment will become useless.

Yep, I do suggest that if you are a prepper, get a basic cell phone. It may save you one day. Oh, you may need a faraday bag to keep it safe too.

Onto the feng shui front, one of the key themes of 9th phase of this 180 year cycle is that the “middle age women” will be in power. First, the term “middle age” women” means those women who are mothers with young kids. What these feng shui masters forget is that why a woman of this type becomes the head of the household?

That’s because their husbands died or that these men have to go far away like, to fight in a war. This 9th phase last 20 years. So 20 years of “middle age men” population decline is in the card.

Just want to point out the obvious. Don’t get high on a new age of hope and dreams. Be prepared.

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TLC Weekly Update January 20, 2024

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US stock market finally made it to new all-time-high on Friday after multiple attempts at clearing the resistance zone. All those bears who thought we are going to get a major double top are now forced to give up. So how high will it go? I have no idea.

But remember this – the large financial institutions love to game the system by forcing a positive close for January so that they can claim that this year will go higher due to the “January Effect”. It is another example of lies told enough times will make people believe in them.

I find this video very interesting that all of us living in North America should be aware of. The power grid here being overloaded in deep winter and also in mid summer is a well known fact. Brownout happens all the time during those periods. If the analysis in the video is correct, then AI will “do us in” this year … I suggest everyone to get at least some kind of backup power handy. I hope that the expected blackout does not happen this winter because a lot of people will be killed.

Because of the official Chinese New Year is coming (Feb 10), all kinds of fortune telling videos are popping up. Chinese calendar system is a solar-lunar system. This year is one of those years for which the solar new year (Feb 4) happens before the lunar one (Feb 10). In Chinese traditional beliefs, this coming year of the dragon will be a blind year and can bring bad luck to many. But I think the more important astrological event is the transit of Pluto into Aquarius which dictates the themes of several major areas of our lives in the coming 20 years.

There are tons of videos on this Pluto transit that you can search online and watch as much as you want. Here is one with some detail explanation about the subject.

Interestingly, Chinese feng shui system also have a “shift of energy” into the 9th phase, the last phase, of its 180 years cycle. Since majority of these feng shui videos are done in Chinese, I am not going to link to them here. In short, the feng shui masters believe that in the 9th phase we will see a lot more natural disasters, wars and diseases. So it can be a very difficult time in coming years for humankind.

And for those who are financially minded, here is Brent Johnson’s take on what to expect from the markets in 2024.

My insane schedule is now slowly going back to normal but then I still have a huge pile up of tasks to complete. Better get back to work now.

Have a great weekend all!

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TLC Weekly Update January 14, 2024

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Second week of January managed to recover all losses made in the first week for the US stock market. Sentiment survey also posted the fourth week of very bullish sentiment. Can this keep going and force a breakout to the upside this week? Hard to say when the whole stock market has transformed into meme stocks like GME …

It is mesmerizing to watch the Chess Puzzle World Championship. Even if you don’t have time watching the whole thing, skip to the end and watch the final showdown. I am amazed how they can solve these puzzles at such high speed.

One of the hottest topics last week was the Miami alien event. Many videos popped up on YouTube and X. Here is one claiming to have new photos.

This is the winter season and a timely video on how to prevent and treat colds and flu from Dr. Huberman was uploaded a few days ago. You don’t need to watch the whole video if you don’t have the time. He is nice enough to have all the links for each chapter in the description section so you can skip to the parts that interest you.

My schedule was so messed up this week I ended up breaking all my normal routines that now affect my sleep badly. Hopefully this week things will return to normal.

Have a great weekend all!

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TLC Weekly Update January 7, 2024

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I could not write my weekly post yesterday thanks to equipment failure here. Luckily I always have spare devices around to take care of such situation. It took some time to figure out which part of the network infrastructure failed and then replacing that with the spare device. And there goes my Saturday plans …

Someone sent me this video about research on aliens. It was recorded back in year 2022. Given the extensive new developments on this front, I think we should all pay attention to this because it looks to me very much like another objective is being pushed to the public by those who really controlling the world behind the scene. Whatever explosive changes unveiled regarding aliens will lead to serious consequences in all areas of our lives.

In the past, I have included links to videos explaining the impacts of various kinds of disasters. Here is a new one that probably no one really thinks about. The reason for getting more people to be aware of this is that we experienced a major outage of internet with one of Canada’s largest internet service providers back in year 2022 and that crippled the nation at every level from retailers can’t process payments to banks not able to process transactions of any kind. Being aware and have the means to deal with such outage is always a good idea.

Along the same line of thoughts, this scientist raised a very interesting question about the exponential increase of methane gas on Earth. It matters because it is not in line with what we have learned from past long term cycles. In fact, this gives me some uneasy feelings after watching this.

Back to catch up on my work. Have a great weekend all!

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TLC Weekly Update December 30, 2023

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Last trading week of the year and no new all-time-high for S&P500 as many bulls proclaimed. It can go higher next week but definitely not before 2023 ended. There is a reason for that and it is all part of the hidden order in price discovery. Next year 2024 will be one hell of a year for trading and pretty much everything else – mark my words.

I came across this video clip just a day ago. It is something I will ask every single young adult to watch and reflect on.

I don’t know how this video popped up on my screen in youtube but it is a very interesting video for those who have never thought of improving their health through a simple structured training program. The concept is not new but the awareness of the benefits of taking care of the fascia system is low even among those who regularly exercise.

Here is another video talking about the absurdity of the rise of the stock market lately. As usual, people who have no idea how financial markets really work always making up excuses to explain what they do not understand.

I guess it is not a bad idea to reiterate this for those who still believe the stock markets or whatever financial markets are reflection of the reality – no, financial market by definition is just an American football game and the winning side at the moment is the one that manages to push harder.

Wish you all a Happy New Year!

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TLC Weekly Update Dec 23, 2023

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Another win for the stock market this week while the bears who thought that the sudden flush on Wednesday was the cue to a crash. Put it lightly, they are very disappointed by Friday. However, several big name gurus warned that 2024 can be the year of hard landing and other unpleasant outcomes in the economy. Bulls got their warning and we will know soon enough who is right and who is wrong.

I find this podcast by Jordan Peterson very interesting as it deviates from his usual guests discussing things distance from the technology world. Many of you may find this video meaningful and impactful on their everyday life. Enjoy.

At the end of the year, we often see lots of predictions for the next year on youtube. Here is one that I find useful information and foods for thought without going too much into specific astrology lingos.

If you are into entrepreneur discussions, I have a good one here with Chris Williams talking with George Mack. Lots of topics are covered and good information through and through. Be prepare to spend almost 2 hours to watch it.

I am winding things down this weekend for 2023 while planning ahead what to do this coming 2024.

Merry Christmas!