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

[flowerbug]

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.

 

[flowerbug]

days like Thursday and Friday are exactly why i raised extra cash a few months ago.

even if it is very hard to be certain of when to put some money back in as you don't really know how far it might go down yet.

also why it pays to develop a plan beforehand and think a lot about it and pay attention and also hope.

i still sleep ok - even if it isn't any fun to see numbers decrease it still is all theoretical until you sell or buy - also i don't have so much involved that it can't be tied up for a while as i am also capable of being patient.

i hope everyone else is weathering the storms ok...