Thread: Emotionless Decisions

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Welcome to the Board Divot!!
Norman

Welcome to TSPTalk board. You can start a "Divot's Account Talk" thread in forum, Members' Accounts Talk. Here you can talk about your investing strategies. Others at TSPTalk have their own sites, such as TSPGO. I'll defer your blog offer to the Administrator. I'm sure members would be interested in any investment strategy that reduces risk, while capturing a fair share of market gains. That's why we are here.

A EE fighter pilot jock? That's quite a combination. I guess you are ahead of most pilots understanding all the electronics packages aboard the fighter.

Originally Posted by Divot

Greetings. I'll be posting as "Divot" - both a comment on my "entertaining" golf game as well as my tactical call sign. I'm an electrical engineer by training and a fighter pilot by profession. I'm certainly not in the finance business, but I enjoy learning. Investing has become a bit of a hobby for me over the last decade or so. Of course some of the best learning comes from the school of hard knocks - but along the way I've had some excellent texts recommended to me.

Since I've watched this site for some time now - and found the entertainment/emotional value higher than the educational - I thought I might recommend some of my favorite reading to the board. The biggest life-changer (purely in terms of investing) for me has been "Point and Figure Charting" by Tom Dorsey. Reading this (repeatedly) has multiplied my confidence, risk management, and profitable trading by several orders of magnitude. The other title I'll throw out there is "High Performance Options Trading" by Yates. I (quite profitably) trade calender debit and credit option spreads in my taxable account.

I've recently started a blog of my own on TSP account risk management which I wondered if the group would be interested in. Concise and emotionless, plus I'll also track my own trading activities. Please let me know if you're interested!

- Divot

For those interested, I post my blog at http://tsptrader.blogspot.com

Welcome Divot!

Welcome Divot..........Was this you?........LOL

http://www.uss-rangerguy.com/images/USS_Stennis.jpg

I had to ask.

Welcome Divot!.

love the picture, ha ha

Welcome to the board Divot. Have fun. Wolverine posted that classic picture, which is a favorite of mine. The pilot of that Tomcat was Dale Snodgrass. He grew up in my hometown of Lake Ronkonkoma, Long Island, NY. His dad was the owner of my favorite surfshop here on Long Island. Dale is now retired from the USN and I believe he lives in Florida with stunt pilot Patty Wagstaff. Both great pilots!

southbeachrat

Originally Posted by Wolverine

Welcome Divot..........Was this you?........LOL

http://www.uss-rangerguy.com/images/USS_Stennis.jpg

I had to ask.

those guys on the deck look a little calm with that 14 blowin by

I guess nothing shakes these guys up. Remember they stand on a pitching deck in all weather, and times of day while the aircraft slam on the deck and try for the cable. Fun stuff! I have a lot of respect for them.

Originally Posted by southbeachrat

Welcome to the board Divot. Have fun. Wolverine posted that classic picture, which is a favorite of mine. The pilot of that Tomcat was Dale Snodgrass. He grew up in my hometown of Lake Ronkonkoma, Long Island, NY. His dad was the owner of my favorite surfshop here on Long Island. Dale is now retired from the USN and I believe he lives in Florida with stunt pilot Patty Wagstaff. Both great pilots!

southbeachrat

Yes southbeachrat.........this picture is a classic for sure and I have always liked.

I now would say from what you have said here, that this picture is real. Some people I have shown this to have doubted if it was real or not. I always figured it was real cause this can be done.

No doubt Dale had fun doing it as he says it was worth it. lol

I would have like to have been aboard the Tomcat when he done it. lol

Thanks for the info.