Even though I like you,
it's like you're not interested in me
I prepared myself so many times to have my heart broken
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Because there are many much cuter girls all around me
You wouldn't notice this plain flower
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
While casually listening to the cafeteria music,
I start tapping my feet to the beat
without even realizing it
I can't stop, how I'm feeling
Come on come on come on come on, baby
tell me my fortune!
Love Fortune Cookie!
The future ain't that bad
Hey! Hey! Hey!
You gotta show your smile to get some of that luck
Heart-shaped Fortune Cookie
let's start making our luck better
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Life isn't all that bad
A surprising miracle will come in a surprising way
I feel like we'll be able to love each other somewhere, somehow
I want to confess to you
but I have no confidence in myself
Because I can just imagine your reaction
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
"A girl with a good personality would be nice" is what all the boys say
But looks are an advantage
The ones that always get first place in popularity contests are cute girls
Please! Please! Please! Oh baby!
Look at me!
Love Fortune Cookie,
let's start breaking out of that shell
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Not even God knows what will happen next
Sad Fortune Cookie,
no need to be so negative
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey!
The world is full of love
It makes you forget all the sad things
I believe that tomorrow is another day
Come on come on come on come on, baby
tell me my fortune!
Love Fortune Cookie
The future ain't that bad
Hey! Hey! Hey!
You gotta show your smile to get some of that luck
Heart-shaped Fortune Cookie
let's start making our luck better
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Life ain't all that bad
A surprising miracle will come in a surprising way
I feel like we'll be able to love each other somewhere, somehow
For me, going long or short is no different from betting black or red at the roulette tables in the casinos
Whether you call it an "investment" or speculative trade, it's just a directional bet - up or down. Nothing more; nothing less.
Most traders don't have a problem with shorting - think about it, does it smell like a "rigged game" if you are only allowed to bet black at the casinos?
Somehow, when it comes "investing", some politicians and "investors" go on a epilepsy fit and/or start a witch hunt whenever there is "shorting" in the market... You know what? Whenever you go "long" on an asset, you are simultaneously going "short" something else at the same time.
If you are buying equities today, you are long equities - making a bet it will go up in whatever time frame you had in mind. You have to pay for the equities with something in exchange. And that's normally cash. Do you see it?
You are in fact "shorting" cash and going "long" equity within the same transaction! You are betting that your cash will be "rotting" in your account and equities will outperform cash. Similarly, if you are taking some money off the table or selling your equities today, you are "short" equities and going "long" cash. You believe cash will outperform equities in the near future. Don't lose money is outperformance right? Rotating between cash and equities is the simplest and cleanest method if you have problems using leveraged instruments like CFDs or Futures to "short" the market. Another way instead of cash is the traditional equities and bonds asset allocation method. You are "shorting" bonds if you rotate out from bonds into equities. And vice versa "shorting" equities if you rotate back into bonds. This is not popular with retail "investors" as most do not own bonds or are familiar with it.
By the way, most Finance trained graduates are familiar with bonds and their relationship with interest rates. If you are not Finance trained, do bring your knowledge up to speed so that you don't bring a flick-knife into a gun fight... There's a saying bond traders are smarter than equities traders... Don't look at me. I didn't say it! For those die die must be 100% invested in equities at all times, there's a solution too! Especially if you know when you rotate into cash, you have difficulty getting right back into equities. After a good run with speculative penny counters, you now want to protect the winnings. You can rotate into defensive dividend paying stocks while maintaining your pristine 100% vested at all times conviction. Of course your defensive counters will drop in a market correction! But the key word here is relative.
It's not so bad if your defensive dividend stocks drop 10% while you previously-owned penny stocks are now 20-30% down, is it? And if you believe the tide has turned, you can "short" defensive dividend stocks and go "long" and rotate back into your bombed-out speculative penny stocks once again. Eh? Why am I hearing Katy Perry's Hot N Cold song in my head now? Before I go, I'll leave you with one Science law and one Spiritual symbol for you to ponder on next time you say you have never "shorted":
Newton Third Law of Motion For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Taoist symbol
How did you get to know this person? (Face to face, books, print media, You-tube videos, documentaries, TV, etc.)
Do you quote the famous sayings of this guru?
Whether it be newsletters, annual reports to shareholders, articles to print media, or books written, have you noticed these investing greats have one thing in common - they write really well!
Was it their facility with History? Providing the context and perspective for the now relative to what has happened in the past?
Or was it their clever interweaving of Literature onto the skeletons of numbers to flesh-out the human emotions and behaviours behind these numbers?
Literature is human emotions and behaviours.
Human emotions and behaviours have not changed much for the past 5,000 years.
I suspect the gurus we like and admire are adept at using both sides of their brains.
For young students reading this post, you may want to reconsider dropping Literature or Arts subjects completely if you have ambitions to be the next investing great
For working adults working on your investing journey to escape, take a look at your collection of books. Are they too skewed towards dry bone skeletons and too little on spirit and soul?
