Dear Alex, dear Kerry,
I wish you a Merry Christmas!!!
Currently I am visiting my father in Berlin and yesterday evening we spent a nice evening together going through (on my laptop) the S&P500's monthly chart since the sixties of the previous century and connecting personal events to the chart.
My father is not a stock expert (retired gynecologist), but he was very interested in the concept of MACD-H divergences. I told him that my first step in learning such concepts was "Trading for a Living". As it happens I had a brandnew copy of "Die Formel für Ihren Börsenerfolg" and the workbook in German in my suitcase for him. (What a lucky coincidence ;-)
Talking about Alex' book and your personal background, we both emphatised with the fact that you Alex and him are both immigrants. He escaped with my mother, my brother and myself in 1981 from Poland via Morocco to Germany. We agreed yesterday that the former communist regime in Eastern Europe has given to many poeple a course of life which was not very easy to cope with at times. But there are also things one should not forget. For instance, I personally know how a happy kid I was in the '70s when we had oranges(!) at Christmas. That was a special event (to remember even 30+ years later) in a system dominated by shortages and suppression. And sometimes it helps to put things into perspective today.
Christmas time gives us a chance to reflect our ups and downs in live. Coming across your books and finding my way to you and Kerry via being a Spike Member, with your help getting to know Bob and other serious traders in Brighton is a definite "up" in my life.
To cut a long story short, I would like to thank you Alex for your books and both you Alex and you Kerry for running SpikeTrade in such an excellent way. I helps me to get a grip on the "big picture" in the markets, to impose self discipline on me and to overcome the loneliness in the markets.
Again, a truly Merry Christmas to both of you and you families. (Pls find attached a Christmas photo of what I consider THE symbol of the former iron curtain dividing the free world and communist countries.)
Thank you
Rodryk S
Rodryk,
ReplyDeleteNicely put. I too echo your comments on about being grateful to Alex and Kerry for their Spike Group work.
I gather that the picture you included is one of Check Point Charlie? The infamous divide between the West and the East?
Grant
Grant,
ReplyDeleteThank you.
Check Point Charlie is indeed one of the most symbolic places for the divide between West and East. You can find an interesting picture of Ceck Point Charlie on http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1062037.stm.
The picture I attached is the Brandenburg Gate. I already walked a lot of times through the Gate and every times it gives me a thrill, because also the Gate was practically the frontier. I found the picture I attached in my Christmas blog on the Internet. If you are interested, you can find other pictures of the Brandeburg Gate, also how it looked like before 1989 on, http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/bauen/wanderungen/de/s4_brandenburgertor.shtml .
Regards,
Rodryk