My Book Will Have Its Day

Spotify's algo continues to serve me music I like, in this case, Willy Mason's "Talk Me Down" ... I've embedded both an acoustic version and one where he has some backing:

ETF Trading Portfolio Update -- February 8, 2016

No changes this week. Getting long gold last week was a good move. More impressive were shorts taken in the second and third weeks of December: Energy, S&P 500 and Small Caps. Everything on my website is time-stamped and for real, this isn't Fantasy Football. 

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Tweets for February 6, 2016

Rare photo of all of the management committee members at Bridgewater Associates: pic.twitter.com/1WdRAhtzuu

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 6, 2016

“As a proper Southern girl, I was bred to be good at men,” she wrote. “I was, too.” https://t.co/V09BJWGJZG | Men are easy.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 6, 2016

Peter Yu, who preceded Barry as president of the Harvard Law Review, went into private equity, not politics: https://t.co/6bS5lsbGjX

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 6, 2016

MT @ghshephard We have these in Singapore, and they are awesome. pic.twitter.com/TR5PllUR4Z | Labor shortage a huge problem there.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 6, 2016

“First Black Elected to Head Harvard’s Law Review” https://t.co/2hEBStGwSN | Fox Butterfield story from 1990. via @hofrench

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 6, 2016

Tweets for February 5, 2016

My most viewed picture on Flickr: https://t.co/K25CxZZP0e | I am astounded to learn that porn-hounds do keyword searches on Flickr!

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 6, 2016

Do not despair fellow Chipotle shareholders, here's my local branch at 6 PM tonight (yes, it's a college town) https://t.co/S0kUuviA39 $CMG

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 6, 2016

I was wrong, there was plenty left on the bone in $LNKD to short (assuming you could find shares), opened $125.34 pic.twitter.com/OuE2OmTgjX

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 5, 2016

Can't be considered a "deep value" when you cut the dividend like $COP did or (dilute) sell another billion dollars of stock like $HES will.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 5, 2016

Two more viral tweets that give reasons to stay short Twitter $TWTR: pic.twitter.com/gFLppfbkTyhttps://t.co/8yzFYvoAJ8 | Yes, I get the irony.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 5, 2016

Barbi's list grows ever longer but still doesn't include the terrible Taleb: https://t.co/kYsnPDgBfL

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 5, 2016

MT @skycita Excited for @supchinanews launch. Subscribe and download the apps here: https://t.co/wzOzG7jCtk pic.twitter.com/ZbIatu62z4

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 5, 2016

MT @david__moser Women’s and men’s restrooms at Pak Pak restaurant in Beijing. Two characters 凹 and 凸 pic.twitter.com/BVmCfS5DFW | Cute.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 5, 2016

RT @JeffMacke Jose Canseco just killed the fin TV biz model… pic.twitter.com/KLrQU2POGf | Jose is no fool.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 5, 2016

RT @zerobeta Kind of messed up for Bernie to hate on such a good movie. Now Wall Street 2… | Feeling the Bern for wretched sequels?

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 5, 2016

RT @jaredwoodard lol everybody sees you, HR pic.twitter.com/A5qoSR2L9C | Glassdoor invaluable … flacks and fakes try to counter veil-lifting.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 5, 2016

Once Poor Always Poor

No good live video of this so I'm forced to embed the old goofy video: 

Tweets for February 4, 2016

Nothing left on the bone for retail as LinkedIn $LNKD drops 30% after hours: pic.twitter.com/wZBEf8rS4Q

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 5, 2016

"Comparing 2015 to 2014, print advertising revenue fell by ~$38MM while digital advtsg revenue rose ~$15MM at the NY Times." | Sinking ship

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 4, 2016

Tweets for February 3, 2016

$NOV $MPC $VLO all punishing bottom fishers and dividend yield chasers: https://t.co/eONTCs35Ku

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 4, 2016

MT @LananhTNguyen Dollar Suffers Worst Day in 7 Years as Traders Face Fed Reality pic.twitter.com/FHz6J14QvX | Another "crowded trade."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 3, 2016

MT @PageSix Ruth Madoff turned to pot, Funyuns & expensive wine to cope with life after Bernie. https://t.co/pJGdTW8HuT | Not in that order.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 3, 2016

MT @business Ducati's XDiavel is an American-style cruiser for middle-aged men with creeping erectile dysfunction. pic.twitter.com/p9dM8MxR5m

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 3, 2016

"$TWTR well-known for providing three catered meals a day, but some lesser-known benefits include on-site acupuncture and improv classes."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 3, 2016

Amusing spacebar mishap: pic.twitter.com/cCTeuIl98A | via @chrisckmedia

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 3, 2016

All-time highs: American Water Works, Aqua America, American States Water Company, The York Water Company ... sensing a defensive theme?

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 3, 2016

Plenty of meat left on the bone in $NOV for those who didn't sell pre-open: pic.twitter.com/1w7sjndPWb

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 3, 2016

Dad: "Kids, your mother bought you a giant TV months ago, use it." Kids ignore Dad, continue watching Netflix on the iPad.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 3, 2016

"System: You are next in queue... Estimated wait time is 0 hours 5 minutes 2 seconds"

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 3, 2016

MT @conradhackett If I could only follow three, at the moment I would choose @nxthompson, @ianbremmer & @ProfJeffJarvis | Heavy tweeters all

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 3, 2016

MT @jaketapper From Iowa Dem vote:

Among women under age 30:
Sanders 84%, Clinton 14%

| The kids really hate Hillary.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 3, 2016

Klarman Hall Opens at Cornell: https://t.co/fxpIeRfTlP | Seth is class of ‘79.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 3, 2016

MT @footnoted Wow! $4.4 B goodwill charge for $YHOO. | Honey badger: https://t.co/zB40jopgjG

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 3, 2016

MT @BarbarianCap $TWTR continues to work on ruining the product. Horrible pop-ups in the browser vs. old extend in the stream. | Stay short.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 3, 2016

MT @stegersaurus singaporean gov site trying to shame women to have children before its too late? https://t.co/iV8Ak7DEHL | Shame? Men too.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 3, 2016

Tweets for February 2, 2016

Plenty of time to sell Royal Caribbean Cruises $RCL on poor "guidance" (assuming you were paying attention): pic.twitter.com/UQNrIjba4N

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 2, 2016

Lunch at Moosewood, pair of aged hippies talking loudly about astrology at the next table ... it's easy to see why people hate Ithaca.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 2, 2016

MT @BarbarianCap Even Chipotle is tweeting pics of empty $CMG stores https://t.co/WoEfRfka86

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 2, 2016

I'm Stuck Under Your Thumb

I like a couple songs from these sisters, Lily & Madeleine, including this one, Back to the River:

Tweets for February 1, 2016

Experiment with embedding tweets .... 

High on the spike in $GOOGL was $843....

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 1, 2016

"I started this page due to readers asking me where 2 find craft beer in Beijing" https://t.co/8Gytmm7FHU | Fan of Slow Boat's Vanilla Stout

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 1, 2016

MT @markminervini Top Ten Signs You're Trading Too Large: https://t.co/vvLQP1WWsC | #6 a classic "shaken confidence" thing.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 1, 2016

Was the same true of Weisenthal and Carney at Business Insider, they "had no stake in the enterprise they created," were just salarymen?

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 1, 2016

"VandeHei and Harris had no stake in the enterprise they created and were compensated only through salary & bonuses" https://t.co/vEB9jcTPbj

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 1, 2016

RT @NickatFP Awesome photo, someone found dinner pic.twitter.com/QArKZ4VTbP | Owl or hawk?

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 1, 2016

Tweet storm from @AlexRubalcava on 60 Minutes and hidden camera footage: https://t.co/e633PeDYsN

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 1, 2016

MT @vb2b The rise of the hipster columnist pic.twitter.com/fvkK8m8oCx | Queer eye for the straight guy? via @PaulCarsten

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) February 1, 2016