My sirs and madams, this is the morning episode I
Say this is the morning episode but
Going forward. I am probably not gonna do like a morning and a bonus
Separately, I'll probably just edit edit them together
into one episode
Because I think posting two short podcasts a day
During the times where I do them twice a day is probably a little bit overkill
so I'm probably just gonna
Merge the the morning and the afternoon episodes together into one
episode
Anyway this morning
I made the decision before hitting the record button
That I was gonna talk about
My little experiment with
Quitting alcohol a
While back, I'm a I'm about at the halfway point of this experiment
So about 15 days ago. I
Put a blog post up on my blog
Proclaiming that I was gonna quit alcohol for a month
And it's been about 15 days since since then I haven't had a drink haven't
Haven't had any beer and
beer is my
Drink of choice. I've been a beer drinker for my entire adult life
For the most part with very little interruption
So this is not
I'm not
Not a thing that I usually do
So for me, it is an experiment because I I don't do this kind of thing
Typically, it's not in my makeup. I
Think
In that regard it's probably a somewhat interesting
Somewhat of an interesting experiment because it's something I've never done before so I don't really know what the results will be
And so far, I mean I came into it with no expectations really I
mean I've quit alcohol for
weeks at a time before
But never like a full month. I don't think I mean
Maybe I did and I just didn't realize it
But
This is the first time I'm like really doing it consciously and actually
paying attention to what what changes there have occurred and
So far, I got to tell you like I don't really have much to report. I
Was a moderate drinker to begin with
And the whole reason I started this
Experiment was to see if it would help with my mental health
and
I got to tell you I don't really see much of a change in
things
I
Still feel like crap every once in a while just I
Guess just the normal variation in the in the body. I just I don't think alcohol is making much of a difference
I got to be honest with you
Maybe in terms of mental clarity in terms of motivational drive
I think maybe that is where the biggest gains are happening
Like I started this podcast and I'm actually sticking to it
Maybe it's having an effect on my motivation
I've
Maybe it's hard to say for sure, but
I feel like maybe I'm a little bit more motivated to do things, but it's
Hard to say. I'm sorry. This is not very satisfying. I got 15 more days to go. I'm gonna stick with it
Heading into winter break here
I'm not winter break, but we're heading into Thanksgiving break. The kids are gonna be at home
So I won't be in my mobile sound studio as often. So I'm not gonna be doing this podcast as
Regular early. I
Still have to get over my
I don't really have a sound studio at home. All I got is this mobile sound studio
So, I don't really know where I would record a podcast in my house I
Mean I've I make my youtube videos from my home office
And maybe I'll do it from there. I don't know
but this podcast so far has been all about recording my
my thoughts in my mobile sound studio and
If I'm not gonna be in my mobile sound studio on a regular basis
I'm not gonna get an opportunity to record but maybe I will maybe I'll just run some errands or whatever and record some stuff
Anyway, I digress
halfway through the non-alcohol experiment not much to report
except for maybe some
Some effects on my motivational drive
Maybe I'm putting more energy into protect productive things perhaps
Like I said, I was a moderate drinker man. I was a moderate drinker
And I I don't think moderate drinking has as much of an effect on you as people might think
In fact, I think it might actually make weekends a little bit more dull
to be honest with you because
There's nothing more enjoyable than having a drink out at a restaurant
With your significant other, you know
That's one of my favorite things in the world
Just sitting there out in a restaurant that has a cool like atmosphere and
Feeling a little buzz. It's just
That's culture man, that's what that's what I mean, that's culture, bro
That's all the culture I get out here in suburbia
Shit man, like what do you want me to do? I
Don't know man
anyway
We'll see how it goes with the remainder
I think this whole like quitting alcohol thing is not all it's hyped all it's hot all it's fucking goddamn it
Sorry for my bad language again
Yeah, I think it's just not all it's
Hopped up to be what the hell I can't think of the word hyped up to be
I don't know man. I don't know man. I don't know man. I don't know man
What the hell I can't think of the word hyped up to be
It's not all it's hyped up to be I know that's not it
Yeah, okay
Well, i'm nearing the end of my um, my my drive here
I called it a drive
I wanted it to be a secret
This is my mobile sound studio, okay
well
Ah, yeah, so yesterday I talked a little bit about nvidia and how the stock market was going to be up today
Well, it is
That was pretty obvious
That was pretty obviously gonna happen and it did
So my portfolio is nice and green baby
Nice and green. Hell yeah, fucking a shit
Well, yeah, it's green
and
I'm hoping i'm actually hoping we trade sideways for a while because I like to make money off of selling options
and when the market's just screaming higher, it's hard to like
For me, I like to sell puts
um against a stock
At a price where I would actually want to own it
And when this when all the stocks i'm watching just scream past any like price where I would actually be willing to buy them
I can't really sell puts against that
against that price
So for that reason i'm kind of hoping we don't just scream higher
I actually liked the correction we had recently. It's it's healthy
And I also have a huge cash position because i'm a very conservative investor
So I
I mean
Yeah
I have a big cash position. That's all i'm saying. And uh, so
I'm prepared for a correction like a big correction
Then on the flip side when when the market screams higher like it's looking like it might do
I don't get to participate
in that as much
Which is unfortunate, but that's you call that opportunity risk
So i'm choosing opportunity risk over
like real risk, you know
Risk of losing a lot of freaking money
Frigid money
And the market will correct very violently
eventually
It's gonna happen
Someday, all right
And until that happens, I think selling options is kind of like how I play the market
Um
So when corrections happen I sell options into those corrections and as the market goes lower
I spread the maturity of those. I don't know if maturity is the right word, but I spread the expirations across like a nice
Time range so as the market corrects I sell against strikes lower and lower
And
Until we bottom out and option premiums are through the roof and
By the time we bottom out i'll be
more exposed to the market
and
Just kind of rambling about trading right now
Hopefully i'll get some app development work done today, what the fuck is this car doing jesus christ
Oh
Full self-driving people sometimes it gets confused by a pile of leaves on the ground
Yep fucking thing anyway, uh, yeah, hopefully i'll do some work on my apps today
Perhaps I will perhaps i'll work on my apps. I know I got to get my timer app out there in the world
I was actually using it for my kettlebell exercises yesterday, and I noticed a few things that I need to fix
So it's not as done as I proclaimed originally
So i'll be working on that
Today
I would be remiss not to talk about the historic rug pull that occurred today in the markets
I was so smug this morning talking about how oh, I knew the market would be up today
I knew it would be up because nvidia reported such wonderful earnings
and lo and behold
We continued the sell-off. How about that? So nvidia was up five percent
At the beginning of the day and now it's down over two percent. I haven't checked it
Yeah, so I mean I figure I should mention like it was pretty pretty historic market move today
So I would be remiss not to talk about it
So wow that happened. Holy crap
That was pretty crazy
so this um
This underscores the importance of position sizing and
Underscores the importance of position sizing risk management
and
It's why I have a large cash position
Because of days like this or sell-offs like this
You have to assume that this stuff is going to happen eventually
You have to assume that big market sell-offs are going to happen
And for that reason you've got to be prepared for it
So I think a lot of the
the price action or the
the price activity in
in the market over the last
week or so
A lot of it could be people getting liquidated people overexposed to the market just too complacent
Too complacent with the buy the dip mentality
Because over a long period of time
Most of these sell-offs have been very brief and they've been
They've been met with a lot of buyers
And people just think that's going to continue forever
But it does not continue forever
Eventually the market will continue to sell off
And um, i'm kind of stepping back
uh
When this kind of stuff happens, I like to add exposure
gradually
So right now i'm like i'm at like a 60 something percent equity exposure
I would like to get to 75 equity exposure by the end of the sell-off whenever that happens to be
If that ever happens
I do have some positions that are very very in the red right now and that sucks but
Um
Yeah, i'm kind of maxed out on some of my positions where
I don't like to go too far over
five to ten percent
in one position
or one sector even
so I have maxed out on a few positions where i'm
I'm like at my comfortable level of exposure and i'm not going to continue
adding exposure to
Those particular names I don't really want to talk about in particular names because I don't want to give
I don't want to give anything
that resembles financial advice because
Probably shouldn't be taking financial advice from me. That's for dang sure
But I just kind of
Giving my general thoughts on the market and what's going on in the stock market right now
My approach generally is to just keep a big cash position
So that when events like this occur
You have cash to take advantage of them
And the way i've been adding exposure is selling puts under the market
And if those puts get assigned
That's fine
And then I like to spread out the expiration over
a long period of time
So that like not everything is expiring all at once so
I don't know. I talked about this this morning. It's it's not important
Like do you really care how I approach my investing? That's not really what this podcast is about
I'm, just kind of telling you what's on my mind right now
It's it's hard to ignore the markets right now just because it's so crazy
And crypto is completely collapsing and I have some exposure to crypto
And I have some exposure to crypto, which is not very comfortable. A lot of people are going through the same
pain right now, so
It's probably what's on on the minds of a lot of americans right now
Since so much of our uh consumer confidence is derived from the stock market
I would say
But anyway, anyway, anyway, anyway
um
well
Like I said this morning, I noticed some stuff I need to add to my timer app and that's
um
after I closed all my
Market related tabs and actually got focused on my work again. I did make some progress on my timer app
I realized there's some stuff I have to do with the audio session
This is a lot of this is something a lot of apps get wrong
They don't handle the audio session properly
So
And there's a lot of nuance to it and uh, it's not obvious how you're supposed to do it
But what I want the app to do and I want to add some like some basic customization at this level
so
When the timer finishes it plays
a completion sound
Yes
it plays a completion sound and what I want to want that to do like
Say i'm listening to a podcast or something at the same time as my timer completes
I want that completion sound to play to interrupt my podcast like temporarily pause my
podcast, play the completion sound, and then resume my podcast, and I'm gonna add
an option where you can either loop the completion sound continuously until you
close the timer, or it will only play the completion sound once, and then resume
whatever audio you were listening to. And yeah, I'm just getting that working so
that it functions the way I want. And then it will be close to completion, and
then my timer app will be complete.
So that's that. And this is the so-called bonus, I'm gonna call it the bonus
segment now. It was the whole bonus episode, but this is the bonus segment. So
I said what I had to say about the crazy market action we've been having, crazy
stock market action. A lot of people getting kicked in the dick right now,
including myself. Things were looking really rosy for a
while there, and now dick-kicking has commenced. It doesn't feel good. But the
markets almost always bounce back eventually, so you got to have cash on
the sidelines, as they say, to take advantage of the times when the market
does do this kind of stuff. And it could go a lot lower too. It can go a lot lower,
and it can hurt a lot. And that's where people like Warren Buffett step in and
start buying. That's why he has such a massive cash position. The guy's about to
retire, but I think you know what I'm talking about.
Old Warren Buffett. I mean, value investing, that's what value investors do.
They wait for the stock market to take a complete and utter cathartic dump, and
then they start buying. Well, I kind of have a little bit of that approach. I'm
not that much of a value investor. I do like to buy things when they're down, but
I don't necessarily wait for, like, once-in-a-lifetime events to buy stocks.
Because there's bear markets and individual stocks all the time. And I
often get in trouble when I don't follow this general approach.
Generally, you should... Personally, I like to buy things when they're down. And when
I don't do this, when I try to do, like, trend following or something, it
typically doesn't work out for me. I typically do better buying things when
they're down and increasing my position as they continue to go down. Ideally,
that's the best way to accumulate positions. And a lot of... And the
positions of mine that are doing the worst right now is where I didn't follow
that strategy. So, there's a lesson to be learned there. And that... One of those
lessons is don't ask me for financial advice. Anyway, I'm out of here. Thanks for
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