Toe-taly unlucky

“Uh-oh, I might be about to pass out.”

That was going through my head yesterday during a routine bathroom break.

See, on the way to the toilet, I stubbed my toe ... 

... the little toe ... 

... and it was throbbing.

As I looked at the aftermath of the event, I noticed that it wasn’t quite pointing the right direction. So I tried to make a quick adjustment

YEOUCH! 

😱

The blood rushed away from my head and the world started getting bright.

Not good.

I laid down for a couple of minutes to recenter myself, and then headed downstairs for some tape. I knew that if it was broken or anything the doctors can’t do much for the little toe. So I straightened it out back to normal and then taped it to its neighbor.

I spent the rest of the day either limping along or laying on the couch.

Thankfully, after a lot of ibuprofen, asking God for some healing, and a full night’s rest, today I woke up with it feeling about 80% back to normal.

Praise the Lord! 🙌

Unlucky accidents happen. But it’s not luck that caused me to take immediate action to reset things as best I could. Nor was it luck to give myself the best chance possible for recovery. And it certainly wasn’t luck to cry out to God with my struggles.

... All lessons that can be applied to trading.

If you do, you might end up lucky too.

Ongoing unemployment claim filings have continued to move higher, in a sign Americans are taking longer to find new work.

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Why it matters …

Bad news may equal good news. The unemployment filings went up. That’s not good. However, that might push the Fed to lower interest rates in September which would be good. The stock market is green, possibly indicating the same thought. Lower interest rates would help the housing market and possibly employ more people.

I’ve heard that the employment rate is binary … if I have a job, it’s 1, if not, it’s 0!

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This article talks about how Shopify had a great quarter reflecting the spending of the consumers. It’s not a bad gauge. (I think Visa results (BAC) also reflect something similar.) So much for the fear-mongering back in April of “if we have tariffs, we will go right into a recession…”

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I’ve been messing around with some new scans that I’m creating and this stock jumped up to the top. It’s almost a no-brainer trade idea and could yield 1.22% premium into next Friday...