Oct

7

Miscellany

October 7, 2025 |

Asindu Drileba has been watching the Daily Spec calendar:

After being hammered in Aug, Orange did well in Sept. It transitioned to a positive day in the S&P 5/6 times.

Nils Poertner is getting wisdom from the classics:

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
- Michel de Montaigne

some type of cheerfulness def relevant for us in markets /trading - in particular when social moods go south / ppl fall for chatboxes (overuse it !) and confuse with reality etc.

Big Al is going for history:

This is the audio version:

The History of the United States Navy

but I am also watching the video version for free on Amazon Prime. The author:

Craig L. Symonds

Craig Lee Symonds (born 31 December 1946, in Long Beach, California) was the Distinguished Visiting Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History for the academic years 2017–2020 at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He is also Professor Emeritus at the U. S. Naval Academy, where he served as chairman of the history department. He is a distinguished historian of the American Civil War, World War II, and maritime history. His book Lincoln and His Admirals won the Lincoln Prize. His book Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings was the 2015 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, and his book Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay won the Gilder-Lehrman Military History prize.


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