TLC Weekly Update March 11, 2022

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Another week of extreme volatility across all financial markets led investors and traders into deep confusion on what to expect in the future. Big name like Zoltan Pozsar even floating the idea of Bretton Woods III is coming. That definitely scares the sh*t out of many long term investors. But isn’t that what Ray Dalio has been telling everyone over the past two years?

If you want to understand the perspective of Pozsar, here is a video of him talking about the economy and financial markets.

Another crazy act coming from Canadian politicians again – the introduction of Bill 67. It is essentially making “critical race theory” the centre of all education from kindergarten to college kids. If you try to search online looking up what CRT is, majority of them, including Wikipedia, will give you words coming from mentally dysfunctional people. You won’t get the truth.

If you are interested to understand the subject, here is a video from Bret Weinstein and another one from Jordan Peterson.

Here is a great video coming from someone who took on the task of learning 10 different languages. His insights should be a good guidance to anyone who has a desire to become a better person.

Coming few weeks starting now, I have major home reorganization to do. I am sure lots of heavy lifting and hard labour will be involved. Let’s see how long it takes for me to recover after it is all done.

Hence, I may not be able to answer emails quickly as I will be away from my computers most of the time. If you are sending me any messages, expect turn around time of a day or two later.

Have a great weekend all!

TLC Weekly Update March 4, 2022

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Can’t believe it is March already and this Non-farm Payroll week could not follow its usual script anymore as geopolitical issues now the focus of many traders and investors. But seriously, who can predict the outcome?

My advice to casual traders and day traders is to avoid trading during this time. You may not be able to handle the extreme volatility both psychologically and technically. It takes good understanding of the nature of volatility to thrive in this environment.

Ray Dalio uploaded a video that is timely for everyone to think deeply on what is happening now. Given the fact that he has diversified his portfolio away from United States, it sends a clear message that he sees a very different world going forward …

For those of you who are prepping for WW3, this is a video you must watch. Canned corned beef can taste / smell very bad if you choose the wrong brand.

I find this video on AI’s way to win the Monopoly game very interesting. In fact, more than two decades ago, that’s how I first started using trading bots in simulations to study market dynamics. One can learn so much about the financial markets by just understanding what other participants do in the markets. Yet, every retail traders are in a hurry to make money so they always focus on beating the market without first understanding what their opponents are doing in the game.

I am way behind schedule on my projects again. I lost a day thanks to power outage for many hours. Not even my uninterruptable power supplies (UPS) can last that many hours. And then I have all these new discoveries in price discovery behaviour that I have to manually verify. I guess it will be another month of crazy work hours.

Have a great weekend all!

TLC Weekly Update February 26, 2022

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This week we’ve witnessed one of the most powerful reversal in the stock market within two trading days. Some people claim that it is due to the long term players who bought put options as a hedge to their portfolios selling the puts to collect the profit. In turn the market makers are forced to unwind their hedges which push the stocks and the stock indices higher. Some others claim that it is the middle of the Venus Mars conjunction leading to the stunning reversal.

Maybe that’s true. Maybe not. Who knows?

Dr. Van Tharp passed away this Thursday. It is a huge loss to the trading communities worldwide. Personally I was deeply affected by his work. My rigorous approach to trading is a result of following his philosophy. Here is a link to Dr. Tharp’s youtube channel. For those of you interested in trading, I am sure you will benefit from his work.

I came across this interesting article about Joe Bailey “Aurora Hunter”. Since I am very interested in seeing the Northern Lights at least one more time, it looks like using Joe’s service would be the best bet.

For those of you concern about the Russia Ukraine situation, a good video put out by Patrick Boyle on the effectiveness of cutting off Russia from SWIFT.

This week I am again not able to keep my schedule to post this weekly update on Friday. My schedule is getting even more hectic going into March. Let’s see if I can squeeze out more productivity under the condition.

It is going to be a good challenge to take on.

Have a great weekend all!

TLC Weekly Update February 18, 2022

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There is a first time for everything. So I have completely forgotten to write this weekly update last week for the first time. I am so overwhelmed by work that I don’t even recall that I missed the writing until this Wednesday. Time flies.

The biggest news here in Canada is the abuse of power by Justin Trudeau for declaring emergency state due to the protests by the truckers. Everyone in Canada knows that he is a corrupted little weasel. Now, we know that he is not only corrupted but also a coward and disgrace to the human species. Sad to see the police forces here not arresting him instead of the truckers.

Congratulation to Hikaru for winning the first leg of the FIDE Grand Prix 2022 classical chess competition. The last game is epic, check it out.

For those of you thinking chess is a game for people who just sit a lot, check out this video on GM Dubov doing pull ups. This is super human strength.

Many traders who jump into trading without learning much about the industry can learn a lot from this video. Jane Street being one of the biggest liquidity providers are often taking the opposite side of your trade. Very interesting take on the crypto markets too.

Back to work again.

Have a great weekend all!

TLC Weekly Update February 4, 2022

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Non-Farm Payroll announcement earlier today plus all these earning surprises over the week has nudged the traders crazy all week. But seriously it is really just another earning season week with way too many retail players playing roulette before all these earning announcements. Don’t take my word for it, check out tradingview and see all these so called pros dishing out their analysis of the stocks. I am not blaming these people because the financial industry has always been doing this to keep the casino participants excited. The retail players have no one to blame but themselves for believing in such predictions that are way worse than astrology forecasts.

Why? Chinese astrology reading on Cathie Wood clearly points to her so-called ability in picking the right stocks is a one-off 10 year cycle event. So just like all the other momentum buyers before her, she looks like a star when things going her way. If you pay attention to this knowledge, you would have avoided her picks last year let along buying or holding ARKK.

Many successful Chinese speculators use this approach to either fade or join the famous fund managers or rich tycoons on their speculations. It works so well that these speculators even spread lies to ensure retail players stay ignorant of this concept. Some people really sworn by these alternative method of market timing. For me, it is just another party trick for fun.

This is Chinese New Year week and the astro new year starts today (Feb 4th), a few days after the new moon that happened back on Feb 1st, which is the official Chinese New Year. Many Chinese people loves to buy these annual astrology forecast books written by the famous gurus around this time to figure out what to expect this year. These books often suggest what to do to improve one’s luck by buying special decorative items to be put in specific places within your home or office.

Whenever I see people I know doing that, I often suggest buying a Pokemon to “get the job done”. I was told it works very well!

Tim Ferriss did a great interview of John List who just came out with a new book. Packed with useful info and ideas if you want to improve your life and scale up your business and trading.

For those of you find this year 2022 giving you a headache on what to do with your investment, check out this video with David Hunt. I find his conjecture reasonable given the extremely crazy level of emotions among the market participants. How the world will eventually unfold is everyone’s guess but being prepared for various scenarios is always a good thing.

If you still do not take care of yourself and believe is the b.s. of the garbage put out by CDC and similar organizations, you need to watch this video. A simple change to your life style will help protect against all kinds of diseases. Going forward, I suspect that really deadly diseases will rampage the world unlike the fake covid. No existing medical system will save you if you do not take care of yourself based or what the medical communities have done so far in handling covid.

Another weekend with –20C temperature here in Toronto. Staying indoor looks like a great idea until it gets warmer.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Have a great weekend all!

TLC Weekly Update January 28, 2022

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All the major big techs have already reported their earnings. However, it seems like people couldn’t decide if interest rate hikes will destroy the future growth or not. Crazy wild swings every hour at 1 to 2% everyday all week while the normal average range for a whole trading day being 1% to 1.5%, you know people are very emotional and not likely to be thinking clearly.

For those of you who is open minded to listen to a more reasonable narrative about the current market situation, check out this video with Jeremy Grantham. Grantham is famous for his calls of the major bubbles in history with his distinctive career in the financial industry for more than 50 years. Many retail investors who has no patience nor the aptitude to understand Grantham’s philosophy in investing will probably hate his approach because he does not provide precise timing which is a dumb idea in the first place for any longer term investments.

But for those of you willing to listen and reflect deeply, you will gain a lot of insights into the current market environment.

The biggest news in Canada at the moment is the Canadian Truckers rally against the Trudeau government’s tyranny of vaccine mandate. Personally, I can tell that Trudeau, a perfect example of a man child who knows nothing but scamming and lying to the public, should resign now. The future world will be very unforgiving to these politicians who messed up the world for two whole years.

Good news though in other countries that more are dropping all restrictions related to covid. My conjecture that this scam will be over pretty soon looks good.

Another great video coming from Patrick Boyle explaining the current situation in China. He makes several good points about what to expect economically in the near future for China. For those of you thinking that investing in China as a diversification from the US markets, you should definitely watch this before making a rushed decision.

Snow storm is expected this weekend and extreme cold warning is issued here in Toronto. So I am stuck at home again. What’s better than focus on work?

Have a great weekend all!

TLC Weekly Update January 21, 2022

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First option expiration Friday of the year got a very difficult problem to solve – how to stop this selloff and help January to recover back up above year 2021 close? Seriously the big question is whether Powell want the stock market going higher from here after 8% correction or that he will wait for a deeper correction like 20% before stopping it stone cold. For those of you who have inside access to what he is thinking, I don’t mind getting some tips on this.

My prediction made on Jan 7th that lockdowns worldwide will end soon looks very promising. UK has given up the bullshit already and so do several other countries. By now the lies told by the government officials and big pharma about covid are common knowledge thanks to the effort made by the heroes who stood up against these crazy people and exposed their crimes. Hopefully, those who are being brain washed can finally wake up and defend themselves properly.

For those of you interested in trading and investing, here is the latest webcast from Jeff Gundlach. It was done back on Jan 11. Gundlach is nice enough to make it available on YouTube allowing more investors to learn from his work.

For those of you who like fishing, this is what we do in winter here in Ontario Canada – ice fishing!

Last year YouTuber agadmator’s chess channel hosted a tournament for everyone to join at lichess near Christmas. He managed to invite quite a number of grandmasters and top chess players to join the game so that regular chess players get a chance to play against them personally. Well, the event was such a success that it crashed the lichess servers quickly and the tournament was halted. Finally, the tournament resumed and GM Hikaru won. Here are some interesting games to enjoy.

At –20C here, I am going nowhere this weekend and will focus on getting more things done.

Have a great weekend all!

TLC Weekly Update January 14, 2022

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Can’t believe it is Saturday already and I failed to post this on last night. I was so tired I went straight to bed and fall asleep at once. What a hectic week.

Here in Toronto Canada we are experiencing extreme coldness these few days. Day time temperature is below –20C. With wind chill effect it feels more like –30C. I guess I am going nowhere this weekend even though I have some chores to take care of.

Not sure how I bump into this video but the hammerhead sharks are indeed very interesting. I always wonder why their heads are so “abnormal” comparing to other sea creatures. Never thought of it being useful …

For anyone who do not know what Trusted News Initiative is, this video is a must watch. Once you get an idea how badly you are affected due to these evil organizations, consider taking the following actions:

1. Ditch your MSM free email accounts and switch to something like protonmail

2. Reduce usage of twitter and youtube by switching over to other open platforms

3. Develop critical thinking based on logic, not copying sound bites offered by experts on MSM

One good example of the woke / liberal authoritarian idiocy is the b.s. we see on Mike Pompeo’s weight loss. All these so called experts on MSM started to call him lying because there is “no way” he could lose 90 pounds in 6 months the way he described. Some others pile on saying that it is unhealthy to lose weight so fast, blah blah blah.

I know quite a few individuals who lose more weight than Pompeo in about the same amount of time using very similar method. And it is very healthy to lose weight quickly if you are doing it correctly. There is no need of special program to achieve this. Everyone with half a brain can find necessary information online these days. But only those who has the determination and discipline like Pompeo whose focus is not about lose weight but to get healthier can do it on their own.

I suspect this video will be taken down soon. I know, I know, yet another video about covid. But this one stir my interest because it analyzes the covid situation in Australia. Much better reporting than the b.s. we see from MSM. One disturbing trend mentioned in the video is the prime age (18-49 years old) mortality in US has spiked much higher (> 40% increase) over the past 12 months ending October 2021 that has nothing to do with covid.

If it were a price chart, my bet is that it is just the start of an explosive move to the upside. For God’s sake, I hope I am wrong.

Got to get back to work.

Have a great weekend all!

TLC Weekly Update January 7, 2022

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It is first post of year 2022. I like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a prosperous new year!

This morning my surface pro suddenly failed to connect to my bluetooth mouse. I ended up spending half an hour to figure out what happened. It turns out that somehow Microsoft Windows 10 made the decision that my bluetooth mouse driver was outdated and hence shutdown all bluetooth functions. I was then forced to update my Windows for over an hour before I can start my working day.

The machine was working perfectly fine yet Windows 10 can just decide to mess up my computer this way. It is kind of scary. On a second thought, the most evil person on Earth at the moment, Bill Gates, created Windows. This crazy behaviour of Windows should be expected … f$#k you Microsoft!

Since it is the beginning of a new year, there are all these astrology forecasts coming out. Let’s play a game of forecast here.

I am going to make one prediction about a situation that many of you are dealing with at the moment. Yep, I am talking about the lockdowns we are facing worldwide. Putting on my astrologer hat, I predict that by end of first quarter of 2022 majority of the lockdowns will be gone. And by third quarter of 2022 there should be no more lockdowns, maybe with the exception of one or two countries with really messed up politicians.

Is this prediction really based on astrology stuff? No. It is common sense.

Since we already know these dumbass lockdowns do not work, they will backfire. For some countries, it will mean the removal of the existing governments for good. For some other countries, it will be the forced resignation of these elected officials for not doing their jobs. So, it is pretty obvious to me that we are seeing the last episode of this lockdown drama everywhere.

We will see if my prediction works out in a few months.

I watched this video and couldn’t help thinking how broken the medical system is all around the world. Yet, many people are so lacking in basic understanding of science and other fundamental knowledge they become harmful to themselves when they seek for solution to heal themselves …

Here is an interview of Elon Musk with Babylon Bee. It is a very interesting interview unlike those MSM waste of time stuff. You may not agree with what Musk thinks but knowing his thoughts can help you understand and better prepared for a future of mankind that is likely to be greatly influenced by him.

Given the situation with Omicron, I think that it is time for people to take the time to listen to the podcast of Joe Rogan with Dr. McCullough on spotify. I actually signed up with spotify just for this interview and the one with Dr. Malone. Stop sticking your head in the sand. Learn all you can so that you are better prepared to deal with the disease should you be infected one day.

I will go back to do my work now. So much more need to get done yet I have only 24 hours a day. LOL.

Have a great weekend all!

TLC Weekly Update December 31, 2021

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Last day for year 2021 also happened to be a Friday today. What a year the world went through.

I took time to reflect on what happened this year and am very grateful that I made good progress in building my proprietary trading firm. So much was done and so many doors are opened thanks to hard work by my team. One area that deserves more of my attention is my health as I tend to eat whatever most convenient when I am extremely focus on hard problems. Yep, that means instant noodle and other fast food.

Need to figure out a way to stop doing that …

This is a great video interviewing a former Fed trader. It is a long video packed with information and it will give you an idea what the Fed may do next.

A drunk Magnus helped a friend to trash the opponent in seconds. I feel sorry for the guy on the opposite side who must be wondering what the hell happened …

Although the US stock markets are printing new all time high over the past few months, Turkey, however, has been facing a disastrously collapse of its currency and stock market. Understanding what happened to Turkey financial system matters because it is what may unfold to other insolvent countries that are facing hyperinflation like Turkey in coming years.

For me, this weekend is the same as other ones as we have lockdown restrictions here so no big parties and no gatherings beyond a few friends. I choose to finish more work thanks to some sudden surge in inspirations I got over the past few nights. It will be a quiet and peaceful night for me to countdown by myself to year 2022.

I wish everyone a very happy, healthy and prosperous new year!