Saturday, February 1, 2020

Wal*Mart's :) .... Ground Hogs Day!

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(Power) Long-term

adjective

  1. occurring over or relating to a long period of time.

(Force)  Immediate
adjective

  1. 1.
    occurring or done at once; instant.


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Happy Ground Hogs Day! 
The day I used to always confuse as being my Dad's birthday. 
If he was still here, it would be tomorrow. 
It's been 14 years and I hear him still every now and then ... in my Son's Laugh.

Yesterdays post could not be brought back to being "text size Normal or Large"  I'm keyboard and Html challenged right now.
Back to using Notepad and then pasting to html ... after today.



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Hiking and Free ATM support:

Under the encouragement of our Bank's Branch Manager, when I set up my hiking account, was to plan out how many branches will be within "walking" distance of the trail.  I chose 10 miles to be my limit to go and have a replacement ATM card made up if I need to.

Searching the entire Appalachian Trail for branches pretty much secures that I'll also be in a Wal*Mart along the path.


Side story: I always can hear my Dad's voice when I say "WalMarts" for that was his pronunciation learned from when he and Mom used to live in the Florida retirement communities.

"We're going to WalMarts.  You need anything?"  lol

There are 9 total for the entire trail.  Some can be reached easily from two towns along the way but I counted them as the same number if it did happen.

7 of the 9 are in the first leg of my journey. 
Middle 700 miles of the A.T.
#7 is actually 3 different Wal*Mart within 10 miles of each other in Roanoke, VA.
#8 is just down the Road in Salem VA and the last, #9 , I would need to travel 10 miles with almost 1 mile being under a mountain on I-77 and the Mountain Tunnel splitting the Wal*Mart from the A.T.

That Roanoke deal works fantastic on my exit of that section and when I begin going further South in the Fall.  A true win.

My first one is in the Delaware Water Gap. 
One of my initial Major break stations for a Zero Day.

I'm thankful it is coming together methodically.
Food and $$$ first.  Everything else will work out.  I have Faith.

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Speaking of Banks, Teachers and Learning ... Time Capsules and Data

My time capsule delivered to me a 4 DVD set for individualized techniques for trading the 4 trends.
The man who created the DVD learned how to become a Millionaire from looking at computer screens while sitting in his office in the Garage.  He sees something the other Masters from 20 years previous did not ... oddly, the DVD's are about 20 years old for me now and I see things that the teachers have not ... shared.

Neither of my two mentors share all but now that I see how they see, Hourly, Daily, Weekly and Monthly.
A fresh set of eyes in the markets and I now look for the pickings.   Like Bumpkins.   Thank you, thank you, thank you.  Re-set.

I've been blessed.
Some of the best financial trading education out there, I received as free.
No cost to me accept the travel and meals.  A few times actually.
My Older Sister paid the entry fees and I got to go as support.
My family paid the travel and meals ... I just had to pay attention.

The training's were spaced out to give "time" a chance to have us all forget everything we first heard.  

I've met Billionaires by trade, I've met millionaires that inherited or won millions in lottery.
From all over the Globe.  
They had all one thing in common, they were tired of losing money in the markets or having their "Managers" loose it for them.   
As for me, I just sat in awe and watched.  
I had no account at first, only trial software and several email addresses to keep getting free time in the markets. 
Then HTML eventually allowed for market analysis for free.
Now I needed bandwidth and connectivity ... in the farms of VA.

Once DSL finially arrived in the fields where we lived at the time, (I got lucky and put in for a technicians line off of a T-1 trunk that was being set at 24 connections per T-1 near our home), having worked in telecom, I saw each day as the technicians were on one corner on the way home, working with trunk lines. 
My neighbor has a friend who informed him it was a line for the workers that lived remotely.
I quickly took advantage of the computerized way things work and called (on a land line) and the computer acknowledged that I was in the area were new service was, so I put in for a line and was approved. 
Verizon then needed to add more T-1 for their technicians because some of us used up the allocation from the first board meeting.  Sometimes, it's who you know.

Back then, I could limp a PC Tracking the Markets ... I started a corporation way too soon with no infrastructure for connectivity.
A lesson that will not be repeated as my iPhone tethers my laptop at speeds 100 times better than that day which was 5 times faster than my 56K modem at the time.  Been in computers a while.

So, hanging with Millionaires, (2) two times in one year when it was the first year I made zero income since I was 10 years old.  Injury and disablement now.  Humbling for sure.

I also found out that the "Master's" book holds the keys ... IF ... one can see the gold nuggets and not just jump over the text on one page of a multi-page book. 

I confronted the "Master" about this type error of sorts in the text on that one page that took me 6 months of wonder.
I read it and re-read it and re-read it as the flow of the terms and the text did not.  I saw it as a huge game changer.

He smiled.   I had gotten the key. 
Even the Autographed book was given to me at one of our earlier meetings as I've attended 4 of his weekend seminars in Vegas.
Where else would you go to learn how to become a Casino?
I learned how to set my odds and take from the Trillions traded daily. 
I've paid for my education free and clear as I was going through it.
Since the 1990's I've been studying the markets. 
My desire was to become a Commodities Investor when I retired.
Final Career Move. 
Only needed Tens of Thousands of dollars (still do to play in that market) and an account.

The world was being opened up to the world markets but you needed entry fees.

After those investors were learned, the markets opened up even more several years ago ... the Mom's and Pop's. 
Accounts were smaller to start and they still held major leverage.
Still, thousands were needed and I could not play "WITH" the markets.

Then FX.  Foreign Exchange came into the living rooms and dens, kitchen tables and desks of home offices.  Now on my phone.

Hmmmm ... I jumped in both feet as I was challenged to Put Up or Shut Up about it.

Well, I took a loan ... can you see where this is going?
That I am still paying on at 4% interest to start a corporation.
That loan will be paid off one month before I get off the Appalachian Trail.  I will have paid for my education and ready to start a next chapter in my existence on this planet.

Not sure if I've mentioned it but I have monthly plans, quarterly plans, semi-annual plans, yearly plans, 3 yr, 5 yr and 10 year plans too.   I just gave up on a bunch of them when I could barely walk or get up stairs, let alone support my head on my shoulders.

Too many times of sticking it up my ass I guess and kicking myself for stupidity and my "Physical" lessons I've learned along the way.

If I'm going to risk the farm, I'm going to get an education from it.
And I did.  I learned how to form and dissolve an LLC.
And thanks again to Mr. Jim Rohn, I learned that profits are better than wages.  It is the KEY to living YOUR DREAMS.
(12 minutes of your day would be well spent listening to the logic by clicking on the name link - it goes to a YouTube)

Now when I form the next trading corporation, it will still be under the guidance and tutelage of Traders Accounting out of Arizona.

I know I made the correct choice to form it with help.
The next LLC will be created in 2021 or soon there after.
It will fund a Trust.   That is something I did not do the first time.
I will work for the Trust and MY Legacy. 
At least that is what I intend to do, at this moment, as I create it.

Long-Term ... past my life.    This is humbling.

As for my self education:
Friday ... I graduated when Brexit mathematically hit the mark it set for the GBPUSD and it all was painted out on my trading screen ... and I was not there to watch it as a family matter concerning a washing machine was more urgent.  

I Graduated!!!!! with a 18% profit in one move, and I missed the overshoot that market greed took it.  It was a big news event.
I AM in the worlds banking system and enjoying how it all works.
What can I accomplish next?  We will soon see.
It is time to "Put up or Shut up" to show what a small account can become for anyone who cares to work full time at their job and part time on their fortune.

Moving Forward,
~ Kindle