Christmas and Computers

Hello and welcome to my blog.

For the past few years I have taken my vacation time at Christmas. My time available for market stuff is limited so I try to plan this time for catching up and setting my house in order. Running scans, looking at charts, cleaning up data and so forth. However, my plans have always been thwarted by some sort of technical problems and this year is no exception. Without changing a thing the software I use for data collection decided to find a problem. I have spent the last few days in a futile attempt at correcting the situation with no luck. It looks like the solution is to buy a new computer. I really do need to upgrade and my only complaint is that my hand has been forced. So, out to buy a new machine today. This does mean I will be facing the task of transferring a lot of stuff from the old machine to the new and climbing a learning curve. The plan though is to use this as an opportunity to clean out the chunk by doing a clean install and then manually moving things over. There are a lot of things in my MetaStock files that are just plain junk and a whole lot of other stuff on the old machine that is unnecessary. Probably take a couple of days or so to get a new machine in order. Once complete I will then have a chance to get down to business and see what is going on in the market.

My thought right now is to simply take the whole process at a slower pace and chill. The market is always there and I can plan for having a lot of my market and other affairs in order by the end of January. To quote John Lennon, "life is what happens when your busy making plans."

Thank you for your time.