Christmas update
What a year!
What am I thankful for.
In no particular order
A great year of trading - my best. Likely also for most GSB users.
GSB community continues to thrive.
Growth in brokers and I'm also Strikers longest serving system developer.
GSBsys1ES is now out of sample I think for over 5 years with better out of sample results than in sample. (for that I blame good market conditions)
Home life.
Got to go away for 5 days with my wife Kerryn, and no children for the first time ever.
While that was nice, it became super apparent that I need to employ someone(s) to run the complex business that has now been created.
We are not a dog family, but we now have a Japanese Sptiz called kia. Intelligent and well behaved, well trained.
My middle daughter Amie finished school with excellent marks, though she focused on her music videos much more than school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIVS_EjBPds
Much of the content of this will go over the heads of non gen Z adults. The video is so full of detail and content with great significance, but I
wouldn't see.
Apart from the obvious, would you like a cookie, NO, i insist. Its apart Google, Meta Whatsapp etc sharing data+ much more.
Amie was really brave also deliberately have no makeup and severe acne. Her next year will be very unknown in that she can go to uni, but wants to
start up her own media business.
Personal.
One of the biggest goals is to sleep better. Sleep long term is not at all good.
I made significant improvements in good habits, but when you have ts crashs and or Interactive Brokers issues, good habits get screwed up when your
working at 3am with more wakeups to come.
(last week was very bad)
I did manage to get 3 times a week, 2 hour exercise periods. Got a neat mountain ebike and bike 40 minutes return to the gym as long as weather
permits.
We have superb bike paths in my area
Also managed to bike into a 'puddle' that was well over knee high. Pitty no photo. Very hard on ebike to reverse once you enter into a a puddle of
unknown depth. (bike path was flooded one day & I didnt know the depth as new to biking at the time)
Parents in law in there 90's, survived covid almost insignificantly, but now aging a fair bit.
Loved the new episodes of the chosen (see google app store / apple) about life story of Jesus. Is the biggest crowd funded series in world history.
Took a little while to get into it but find in amazing and inspiring.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-chosen/id6443956656
https://thechosen-app.com/
Election
We live in possible the worlds most locked down state as far as covid regulations. The overall outcome for covid health, mental health and finances
were devastating.
Out state debt is > 3 other states combined. Health care...bad. spoke to someone with broken bones - you will not get ambulance but we can get a taxi
My wife particular was very involved and knocked on many doors. We focused in the electorate of our Premier Danial Andrews.
so much I could write....
What was interesting too whats scrutinizing of the votes. Really polarized. Andrews was either first or last in preferences.
From memory a hugh 7% of votes were not valid. Much of that accidental.
I was helping a new player (Ian cook) who came second in Andrews seat. That is amazing in that hes new and not associated with any party.
The size of his team I think was bigger than all the other parties combined.
Ian Cook entered politics when a government inspect planted a slug in his food business. What the inspector didnt know it there was a camera videoing
him during the event.
Ians extremely successful business with 40 employees was shut down. (It was a competitor to a government run food business)
The degree of corruption in our state is at a scale most people have no idea on. A party that got many votes was the Sack Dan Andrews party. This
party gives all its votes to Dan Andrews.
Thats totally legal however, just unethical. Like people who run forex courses getting paid by the broker on how much there clients loose. (True
story)
Dan Andrews got in by 51% 
The political views are minor, its the corruption and danger when one man controls the judges, police, medical and now corruption bodies.
Global issues
One of the many issues I see is energy policy's leading into to disaster (good likely for natural gas and crude oil trading) and food scarcity.
IE Ukraine was one of the largest food produces. Followed by Netherlands. Netherlands my understanding is has shut down 3000 farms recently under the
guise of being more environmental (when Europe and Africa are facing massive food issues.
I feel we are long in our trading positions in stock called human / political stupidity and or evil. Sadly this good environment for our trading.
What im looking forwards to.
I have just employed a full time a programmer with TS and Ninja trader skills. (but wont be doing GSB code)
First task is some back end business things and converting systems for sale to Ninja Trader. This will take a bit of time to ramp up.
My hope is this will lead to freeing my time up to have a life, and develop GSB more.
My business model has always been, make GSB for my own trading, improve the product with ideas from the users (Who make it the great product what it
is)
It is not sell high volumes of software. If I went down that path, it would be detrimental to my trading.
And after the glorious trading day of November the 30th, this turned out to be a good model.
I may write more, but happy to hear from others Highs, Lows thinks to be thankful for.
Wishing you a great Christmas and happy new year |