Went to the Skins vs. Cleveland game on Sunday. F was it cold out there. I was wearing two t-shirts, a long sleeve and short sleeve. It wasn’t too bad up until game time, but as soon as I got to my seat, I swear my nipples almost got frost bite. I told my buddy to bite it off, but I don’t think he was into that kind of shit. Anyways, it was a little bit nerve racking at the end when Portis fumbled and they scored, but thanks to Derek Anderson’s triffleness and Phil Dawson’s hurt-ing accuracy, the Skins were able to pull off a nice win. 5-2 baby! I am most definitely “Horny for Zorny” now.
So, guess who benched Steven Jackson on his fantasy team this weekend? I’ve got to be the worst GM ever. I definitely benched Favre when he scored 6 TDs. Definitely started Chris Perry over Stephen Jackson in week 4 when he had 110 yds and 1 TD over Buffalo. And I definitely benched Aaron Rodgers over J.T. O’Sullivan two weeks ago when he had 3 TDs, 313 yds over Atlanta. From here on out, I start Aaron Rodgers & Stephen Jackson regardless of who they play. Thankfully, I still won this weekend because the team I played is even more triffling than my team.
I didn’t realize that the UFC 89, Leiben vs. Bisping, was on during the middle of the day on Saturday. I ended up watching the fight live through the web. Apparently it was on Setanta, which Comcast doesn’t have yet. Spike TV aired it “live” at night though. None of the casual fans probably even realized that it wasn’t live, as Spike TV billed it as a “live” event. Don’t sleep on Silva vs. Cote at UFC 90 this coming weekend. Should be a great fight.
Looks like the markets are in full blown rally mode today. Again, all I want to do is to sell into today’s rally, but I keep telling myself that it’s probably the wrong thing to do. Usually, when I’m ready to dump, it’s really time to add, so I’m gonna sit tight today. I think that the market will let me know when it’s time to dump for real. Until then, patience, patience, patience. Usually, what happens around this time is that I sell half of all of my losers to prevent further carnage…then we’ll continue going higher, and within a few days, I will sell pretty much all of my holdings and go all cash, recouping some of my losses from the “big crash”. Then, I will look to short thinking that we have to go back down to retest those lows, but I’ll end up losing money on my short. This time is gonna be different though. I’m gonna sit tight and hold tight and wait for a real topping process. If I’m right, we should head back up to above Dow 10,000, then I will look to take some profits. Tell me if you guys are thinking the same thing, and then I will know that I’m right in my analysis.
Sometimes, I tend to overthink things. Okay, who am I kidding, I tend to overthink things all the time. Better to do “dummy investing”. Be smart and don’t panic. I think I’ve held up much better than most people over the past few months. It’s kinda funny, but I’ve talked to a ton of people over the past few weeks about their portfolios, and I’ll be honest, when someone tells me that they’ve lost more money than me, I feel so damn good inside. People will ask me and I will tell them that I’m down about $20-$30k total from my “all time highs”, and then they’ll be like “oh man, I’m down like $40k-$60k” or something like that, and no doubt that I am smiling inside. What’s also funny is that I hear those same people asking others about their portfolios, and the others will be like, “oh, my dad’s lost 40% of his retirement funds”, or “my UPS driver is down $100k”…and I can see them smiling inside. The point is, if you think you’re doing bad in the markets, there’s always someone else who’s doing worse than you, so you can smile. 
Okay, looks like I’m up about $7.5k across all of my portfolios today. It’s been a good day so far. Let’s see if DIA can close above it’s daily 8EMA. If so, then I think we should be in store for a retest of the 20SMA or one of the key retracement levels on the upside. For now, I’m trying not to panic sell on this strong day. Man, I got a lot of stocks up double digit percentages though…
Looks like the markets are heading higher into the close. Let’s see if we get any follow through tomorrow. I’m thinking about signing up to JPO5 (Junkies Poker Open 5), as reported by TheSportsAffiliate.com. Buy-in is $260 + $40, and the tourney is on Thursday, November 13th. I played in the first tourney, busting out around 47 out of 300 and change. And I haven’t played since then. I think it may be time again. I hate committing to something like this three weeks in advance though. We’ll see.