"Even the sun shines on a dog's asshole occasionally"

A friend once said that to me during an unusually lucky stretch the night before leaving on a Colorado ski trip, I won a ski weekend vacation at a local bar. But then on the trip I managed to lose my fiancé’s digital camera on the last run of the last day...at lift closing time. So there went an entire week of vacation pictures like that. I also managed to have my goggles stolen and ski helmet crushed, however it was still one of the best vacations I've had.

That scenario made me think of my first trade on this blog. I closed out my AMD trades today...why you may ask? I decided to wrap up that position because I really made piss poor trades on both ends of the game, my entry was poorly times with a really loose stop, and my exit was stopped out because I was waiting for a follow through on the early up move. So even when I made a poor showing on my trading, I still finished the trade in the positive, up almost $205 net commissions.

Somehow it just so happened that AMD was the tech sector leader and I was along for the ride. While I expected my trip to be rife with luck if I were to ever succeed, I didn't imagine I would start off on that foot. However where luck is present, when you're a dog's asshole, you gotta expect some shit. I realized last night right after posting my internet connection to my home computer went down.

Anyone know what a blinking light means on a router?

Now I am a bit of a computer guy, I built the one I use at home, and the best I can figure, the Ethernet port on my motherboard must have shit the bed. And I was thinking about how to fix it, which after testing wires, and figuring out the wireless still works, leads me to believe it must be a problem with the computer motherboard. Here's where my (now wife) taught me a lesson which I could really learn from in trading going forward.

I was telling her my theory, and explained to replace the motherboard, since it is dated, would also require a CPU change, and the RAM that goes along with it. I am the cheap one in the relationship, so I am always looking for ways to get by, and she comes back with "does the computer have wireless? Why not just get wireless for it?" Genius!  I can easily pick up a wireless adapter from newegg for a few bucks.

I quickly realized that I was not thinking out of the box, and when you approach a problem from an outside perspective, you will usually see different solutions. As a trader, this should always be something I need to remember, since it is simply a game against everyone else that I am playing, maybe they missed something?

Due to the computer issues, I will do my best to post the trade pics, unfortunately no promises though.