Before you get all crazy on me, hear me out. So I just finished season two of The Walking Dead, and when such horrible tactical decisions are made, every hair on my body stands up. My brother got me interested in the series, “dude, what would you do in that situation?” Naturally, being a grunt trained in fighting from being surrounded, oh no, not “if” surrounded, as a paratrooper, you expect to fight that way. It is what it is. My brother– being the “fly boy” that he is –exploited this:

“I don’t like that zombie horror shit dude. I got enough shit making my imagination a nightmare.”

“Wait, a tough guy ex-paratrooper is scared to watch a zombie show that is rated for 14 year-old’s? Dude, the Colonel watched, and Dad said he’d watch?”

“Fine, fuck.”

In the first season you could stack things up to rookie mistakes, but by the middle to end of the second half of the second season, some stupid decisions were made. Three that made me cringe: People going off by themselves (especially Carl), splitting up the group in units less than four people, and going out at night. Of course, sometimes there is only one choice, but, quite a few times, great tragedy could be avoiding by making basic mistakes. Does it make for great TeeVee drama, why of course, and “hindsight is always 20/20.” How does this relate to Fast Money?

On CNBC’s Fast Money, the hosts are supposed to be talking about good trades to make, but often they get in “Street Fights,” or they go over some ridiculous options strategy, where you “risk $300, to make $100.” No thank you. Don’t get me wrong, I truly respect some of the folks on Fast Money, but we can all admit that it’s apparent that they are forced to make decisions on popular CNBC stocks– that no one wants to trade –because that is what the producers want. Thus, any decision makes them look like a rookie.

Sometimes you have to make a decision, and it won’t always be the right one, but try to put yourself in a place where the decisions are easiest to make. Do your research, and keep the fundamentals, of what ever you do, sharp.

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