Update from The House of Raul

Raul3 Thu Sep 14, 2017 10:37am EST 1 Comment

I have not placed a single trade this week. Often times when the signals cross I will still scalp my NASDAQ levels because they are truly the best prices to trade, but I opted for a stoic test of patience.

Meanwhile I have been playing general contractor. At home I am pulling permits, coordinating several contractors, purchasing materials, and maintaining goodwill with the neighborhood. I am building a wall lads. On paper it conforms to all ordinances, but with some landscaping ingenuity it is actually a foot taller than is allowed. It is going to be a beautiful wall with gardens on the outside–what I am referring to as ‘public gardens’–a term popularized deep in the ghettos of Detroit where entire city blocks are being purchased by evil capitalists and converted into tree farms while they wait for values to rise.

Two hours north, where hardly any industrial pollution falls upon the land, I have been overseeing the construction of a massive wooden deck. It will be a place for elder Raul to escape humanity, which is his favorite pastime.

Elder Raul spent his entire life as a loyal workhorse, laboring far beyond his prime years. Six months ago it all caught up to him. Despite being a small Italian, low to the ground and designed for digging holes and laying bricks, his back went kaputz. Two discs were eroded beyond repair and slated for removal, while the next three were fused together with little baskets. They split open like a pig four weeks ago and operated upon him with tiny robot hands. He is now part man, part machine.

Since his home is of the colonial variety, I moved him into my much more logical, much more sprawling ranch. This allows me to keep a close watch of his recovery while also ensuring he maintains an apex vegetarian diet. We are supplementing in bone marrow and other cartilage soups, based on my theory that this will aid the healing of his own spinal bits.

I am conducting other experiments on him also, regarding his medicine. This week has been a challenge, but we are fortunate to live in a state where I have access to medicinal cannabis. We have nearly eliminated the use of all opiates only one month after a major surgery and replaced them with gratuitous servings of CBD, which I include in every meal and also apply topically. The cannabinoids do not seem as effective against nerve pain. As always, #developing. These efforts are based of the teaching of Dr. Jason Mitchell and his lectures on the endocannabinoid system.

There are other irons in the fire. I set up another Stocktwits MeetUp for the beginning of October. We are going to build the third installment of my systematic portfolio and perhaps also a book of dividends. We will also discuss the micro-plastics that have infiltrated over 90% of the tap water in the United States and how most everything around us is designed to kill us. And why that is okay, and how we can still enjoy ourselves in this giant booby trap of a world.

Also I have been flying through fiction novels, reading 50-60 pages daily.

Next week I plan to sit down and get back to mining NASDAQ points, 4-to-6 at at time (sometimes more). Next week the September contract will be good and dead and all my volume metrics will go back to helping me see what others cannot. Why trade when your edge is not the sharpest? I think Abe Lincoln said it best, and I will probably mangle it, but he said he would spend like two-and-a-half hours sharpening his axe if he had three hours to cut down a cherry tree. Smart guy that Lincoln was.

I would just hire someone then watch them from a distance—taking snaps of them as they chop chop away—maybe adding the occasional filter to make them look like a transvestite. Lolz