“You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!”
~Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
The MensaMonkey trades are posted in the left sidebar as
they happen but the year-to date gains / losses are not updated until the
current position is sold. The sidebar
view of all 2013 trades versus the S&P500 is posted below. Any index fund sure looks good right about
now but let's not forget that the year is not even half over. This doesn't excuse the poor decision making
of MM, but hope springs eternal...I hope.
And you know how helpful "hope" is when buying and selling anything the
stock market has to offer.
As much as I don't want to post this chart of bad decisions,
market timing methods are not only part voodoo but also part science. So in the
name of science here's the damage so far this year...
Sure seems like MM is doing some serious chattering lately;
dodging and weaving in and out of trades like Tarzan, the original swing
trader.
MensaMonkey doesn't believe in
following the easy trend this year and is reluctant to go long as the chart
shows.
Just because I programmed the beast doesn't mean that I can
comprehend the output.
It's sort of like
having someone put a solid object in a box and then giving it to you to shake
and listen to try to figure out what's in it.
And when you are done with that
guessing game, you can throw the object away and just play with the box. I am a monkey.
Who says I can't rest on my laurels. Now's a good a time as any after looking at
the S&P roll over my 2013 creation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm-upHSP9KU
