Finances, Stock Market, Money Market, Mutual Funds, Investments, Savings, etc.

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things continue to be interesting.

i raised cash by quite a bit (taking profits and reducing exposure to some companies) so while i generally don't try to time the market i like having some extra cash on hand in case we get a big enough correction that makes some stocks a bargain. right now a lot of things are not bargains.

i'm also learning some new things and making mistakes so it is all going about as expected.

 

[flowerbug]

happy to have finally gotten my initial version of a program done so it helps me out with my record keeping.

it searches all my past transactions and finds and lists out the lots of stocks that i still have and then it will generate buy or sell transactions and spit out the text into a file in a nice format for me with all the math properly done. this saves a lot of time and aggravation in that i don't have to go back through my transactions and find the appropriate lot any more and i don't have to do the math (which for someone who transposes digits quite often is very nice) and then i also don't have to wonder if i've got the format screwed up.

so version 0.0.1 is out to the world for others to use it too if they want.

now i get to play with it more and work on improvements and it also helps keep me interested in learning more about the programming language Python.

this is why i like winter and time off from gardening, it gives me other things to think about and reminds me of how much fun i used to have writing programs (much larger and more complicated programs).

 

[flowerbug]

revised version of program now out. feels good to have this done to this extent. more useful and easier to use. will save me a lot more time these coming weeks, etc.