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Checker players would be advised not to try and play chess in the market. The smarter play as the small investor is choosing a niche that the big players can't engage because of their size. Small capitalised firms and companies that aren't followed by analysts. Mutual funds are another option. If you now statistics you can allocate your funds across mutual funds and get a higher return than any of the funds in your portfolio. You simply have to choose funds that aren't correlated and combine their price deviations.

Buy and hold is a better strategy than day trading for the small investor. Unless you using financial models , statistics. Wall Street firms and hedge funds use program trading and have literally hired rocket scientists , statiscians and mathematicians. That's your competition as an investor. As a general rule i try to ignore ignorance.

Here's the lens I'm looking through right now: Time is circular or sometimes represented as an infinity symbol. Therefore, I'm receiving your reply that Time Markers are immensely personal. TM is like breadcrumbs I've left on the path as I move through the circle of Time. And since I've partnered with Google's solution for measuring how many visitors are on the point at any given moment, it provides messages. Those messages led me back to that post I wrote five years ago. And it feels like I left myself a note to follow a specific path at this TIME. So, this makes sense to me. - I've laid the foundation to build awareness for my project -(I've breathed life into it). Now others realize my vision. And they are resurrecting/ "resuscitating" it. Wow - Just Wow. 💓💓💓

@ProfD I studied Accounting in Undergrad and Finance, in Grad School for most of my career I worked in Financial Services. It's important to realise that there are some really sharp people investing. People that haven't seen the market go down, think they are the captain of finance.

@Delano Twin, check me if I’m wrong. But finance experts report the drivers of inflation is too much money chasing too few goods, a hot job market- (unemployment rate is 3.6 and US economy added 372000 jobs, high wages (hourly earnings rose 10 cents to $32.08 according to the July Jobs report) the strong dollar causing certain markets to rally AND gas prices are down. - @daniellegfny do you actually follow financial markets? Because if you did, you know now is the time to get rid of personal credit debt. The fed’s rate hike is to cool the economy and prevent a recession. Living above our means makes it difficult for any American to live comfortably. We are not in a recession -and inflation is tied to the consumer market. Biden can’t control our consumerism - no president can but at least he is working to keep folks employed. By the way, as with most republican presidents, 45 created the least amount jobs than any other president in recent history. If you’re self-employed, you may not care about employment numbers. But remember, unless you’re a multimillionaire living off investments, you also need a strong jobs market In order to get paid too.

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Hieroglyphs was a formal writing system created by the ancient Egyptians (northeastern Africans) over 4,000 years ago. It is the basis for every other writing system (Greek, Arabic, Latin, etc.). 😎

Time markers is my classification system to qualify moments of time in the future. There are over 100 time markers and I am using a non decimal counting system. In addition every time marker tells a story and can be converted into an Astrology chart. In order to get more detail. The piece you wrote did you have to research and was it unusually hard to edit or proofread. It will most likely bring you additional income and or work. I'll have a look a bit later.

@Delano, based on the knowledge you have shared here, I figured as much regarding your background. Excellent.👍🏿 No doubt, there are very sharp people out here playing the game and winning in a major way. The checkers players putting their chips on the Chessboard are just in the way.🤣😎

@ProfD, yes! In fact, I called on this part of @Delano's "essence" to help me with my cursory finance knowledge. I've kept my debt at 0 for the last few quarters. If I can't afford it, I don't buy it. It was hard not to see the signs. Also Google's CEO said they are slowing hiring. I bet this is in response to the Consumer Price Index report released today. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of major corporations follow them. Gas prices are down now so that's not factored into the report but rent is rising -- so those who are paying rent are feeling the pinch. Sadly, local governments were too slow to act on rent gouging properties...My municipal government put an ordinance on the books to prevent hedge funds from buying up single homes trapping families into a cycle of renting without a chance to own. As I always say, VOTE, because all politics is local. Don't you mean, "I AM A Taxi Driver"... Ok that's just creepy. And I can tell you're out of your depth both financially and grammatically - you've just used a subjective personal pronoun as the subject of a sentence that referenced someone outside of yourself. Do you get a script to post these messages. 🤮

@Mel Hopkins and @Delano, you both share a great cursory insight into how money works. Finance is definitely an education people should learn and teach early in life. Understanding it is important. 😎

Brittney Griner is not a thug by any stretch of the imagination. She was raised by her mother and father. Her dad is a former sheriff and a Marine veteran who served in Vietnam. No lack of family structure. 😎

The United States of America (USA) has always been hypocritical from a geopolitical perspective when it comes to gun laws, human rights, extremism, terrorism and everything else. But, the USA is the #1 super power in the world which equates to "do as I say and don't worry about what I do". For all of its warts, there's a reason why people from all over the world still want to come to the USA. The state doesn't matter. Folks just want to get here. The gun industry is worth $63 billion. That's a whole lot of money. There are about 20 thousand people killed in gun-related homicides annually. That is about 0.005970% deaths out of a population of 335 million people. From a human perspective, those deaths are preventable. Very few people want to deal with a family member or friend getting shot and killed. From a money perspective, it's apparently an acceptable amount of loss in the course of doing business. Otherwise, the gun lobby wouldn't be so adamant in protecting it. Japan averages less than 10 homicides per year in a country of 126 million people. There are less than 350 thousand guns in that country. America has to decide why it's necessary to have 393 million guns floating around. 😎

Inspiration mean to breathe in spirit. I was looking up the etymology of the word and found the following. I am 3/4 through, Thank You @Mel Hopkins The sense evolution seems to be from "breathe into" to "infuse animation or influence," thus "affect, rouse, guide or control," especially by divine influence. Inspire (v.) in Middle English also was used to mean "breath or put life or spirit into the human body; impart reason to a human soul." Literal sense "act of inhaling" attested in English from 1560s. Meaning "one who inspires others" is attested by 1867. https://www.etymonline.com/word/inspiration

@Mel Hopkins cam you send me 5he date and time stamp for the earliest and the latest correspondence. Also the location you received or from which it was sent. And I'll have a look. Also I would love to read the post. Is it about synchronisation omens or coincidence?

@Pioneer1 You know that’s right! I would be a “Shirley Chisolm” candidate who fights for freedom. I’d also work to make folks get the “eff out of Black people’s way. Do you know how far we would be if the powers that be would stop putting up literal and figurative roadblocks to prevent our progress. Also, from where I sit, it doesn’t seem like people want to be “free.” Many people want to be “led” or need a “leader. I’m not a leader - I’m an organizer. But thanks to Stacey Abrams I see that can work too. Having said all that - the true power in politics is what you and I do -actually what we all do here support and work with movements that we believe in like helping @Troy with #readingblack.com This is where real policy is born.

No and once again you bring facts to the discussion. The easiest way to understand the relationship is to think of money as something you buy. If demand is high so is the price. Interest is the price of money. Money is one product where the value is less than the price which is due to its utility. International trade of commodities are in USD. China is pushing to supplant athe dollar with their currency. Which I believe is the yuan. I thought they might be successful. However now I am less sure. I agree have some understanding of the how the Financial Markets operate and the products would be a useful first step in investing. Otherwise it becomes speculation or gambling. However I am not licensed to give financial advice.

The science of semantics and the mastery of the specious argument can turn reality into an illusion' and vice versa. Although i haven't discovered it, i believe truth is fluid. To me that is not an ending; it's a beginning. Greg's input is conspicuously absent from this thread. Wonder why? LOL

Even though I addressed Pioneer. I had no hope of him thinking differently. I can think of one instance where beliefs were shattered. Quantum Physics. I believe Einstein withdrew one of his theories because it didn't make sense but he was posthumously proven correct. I believe he called it his greatest error.