The Stage Is Set

Here we are mid-February aka halfway through the first quarter.  Are you on track to earn your quarterly performance bonus?  February is a peculiar month.  It’s short, up here in the north it’s wicked cold and grey, it has the Super Bowl, and it’s a set-the-tone-for-the-year kind of month.  You may argue January sets the tone, but when month two grinds on and the bulls are still pressing the highs, you have to really step back and observe your surroundings.

I do my best work in February.  It’s always dark outside when I get to my office, and it’s dark outside when I leave.  I can drink with friends, but most of them lie dormant like bears most the week.  I could go to the bar, but really I can only expect vagrants and pickpockets.  So I work, then I go home and work.  And before I know it the sun starts hanging around a bit longer and my purse is larger.  It’s a good month.

I’ve made a generous sum of money thus far this year.  A great deal of it was made yesterday on ANGI.  I remained humble to the market and scaled off some profits.  I reinvested the funds plus some into CCJ and GNRC. I got the tingle to sell a little into the close today. Yet here I sat, into the closing bell, unable to part ways with any of my positions.  They all look so good.  Thus I’m riding into the State of The Union address with only 3% cash.  Ah, my lovely three, there you are.

I’m hoping the SoTU, put on by BHO, takes my SoTY, C, and rips it beyond HOD to HOY again TOMM.

Zynga absolutely destroyed chasers today.  It came back to where I added post earnings.  For any home gamers keeping track of where I stand on the name, half of my pre-earnings legacy position in the name is up 33%.  Plus I booked two wins in the name earlier this year (once from the back seat of a wild taxi cab ride), putting bread on the table for myself and my animals.  I feel like I have a good handle on the name this year, and yet, I need to make sure I don’t fumble this third go at the name.

I’m sitting on a big win in American Apparel too.  I suppose I’m mentioning all this winship because I’m concerned with the President’s speech tonight.  People often walk away from his speeches with binary emotions.  Love it, hate it.  And the market can follow suit.  My individual positions look good, the indices look good, the currencies look good, but this event can dick punch me off my high water mark.

So even though I abhor watching the teevee, I’ll have to catch tidbits from this talk.  I may get drunk.  Adieu.