Derf's Grotto

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Well, I'm back! Did you all miss me?
Seeing lots of good news/bad news........The good news, many of the stocks I decided to keep have done well. The bad news, many I didn't keep did well also (well, not exactly bad news). Many I sold have fallen quite a bit and making it tough for me to stick to my strategy of getting away from stock trading.
Right now I have quite a bit sitting in money market paying around 4.5%. Of course, our President is working hard to take away our (finally) decent interest rates. I need to lock into something before it happens.
I had a sell order in for about half of my $SOUN at $16.75 and that happened. Not a bad short term trade considering I bought much of it under $10.
My $TTD got crushed while I was away. Gotta figure out what went wrong there.

I left Europe still standing. Much of it was pretty pricey to visit and I still don't understand how the dollar can have a huge advantage to the local currency and yet its STILL quite pricey to visit. Some countries will take our dollars and some will not.
The overall good news is (knock on wood) I made enough on my current investments while gone to pay for the entire trip, so we went ahead and booked another. The Spousal_unit can take whoever will be her current partner if I don't last that long.

BTW, traveling business class and having your own pod on the plane is truly well worth the ridiculous price they charge.