Quotes added on Friday, May 13 2016
I researched and found a good stock to buy in my ROTH IRA. I bought it, and the thing went up a beautiful 38% in one year while I was working every day and not looking at my stocks. Then it started to go down. I had put a 10% trailing stop-loss order in place that would have gotten me out with a tidy 28% profit, but my online broker's rules automatically expired my “Good ‘til Cancelled” order without my actually cancelling it, so it didn't kick in when I needed it. When I finally lost my job and had time to take a look again, the stock had sunk below my original buying price and become stagnant. I waited a week for the next minor noise bump so I wouldn't lose quite as much when I unloaded it. As soon as I sold it, that very night, someone somewhere bought a whole bunch of shares during afterhours trading, which drove the price up in the morning. Other people noticed the sudden movement and piled on. It became super active again and gained 5% in one day, rising above my original price, and I wasn’t in it.
To God I felt a fire ignite that day when you
Looked into my eyes my broken heart skipped so
Many beats it threatened to pull back the
Broken peices and make me whole again. I watched
As our love burst into flames - flames in which I thought
Would burn forever and maybe that was from my own
Stupidity to think that we would last forever in a place
Where forever only meant a day or two a place where
Broken hearts and used liquor bottles littered the
Souls of the living a place in which our fiery love was on
The edge of being contained.
A place where the ashes of our past
Loves threatened to tear us apart.
"Have you ever been on a sailboat, surrounded by sea with no land in sight, without even the possibility of sighting land for days to come? To stand at the helm of your destiny. I want that, one more time. I want to be in the Piazza del Campo in Siena. To feel the surge as 10 racehorses go thundering by. I want another meal in Paris, at L'Ambroisie, at the Place des Vosges. I want another bottle of wine. And then another. I want the warmth of a woman and a cool set of sheets. One more night of jazz at the Vanguard. I want to stand on the summits and smoke Cubans and feel the sun on my face for as long as I can. Walk on the Wall again. Climb the Tower. Ride the River. Stare at the Frescos. I want to sit in the garden and read one more good book. Most of all I want to sleep. I want to sleep like I slept when I was a boy. Give me that, just one time." Raymond 'Red' Reddington
