On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

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One of my favorite lines from a movie:

"How did you just become more beautiful in the last 20 seconds?" - from the movie, 'The Space Between us'

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A goodbye from a someone who is leaving my life:

"You are the greatest thing to have happened to me during my lowest point and I will always be grateful to have shared that journey with you."

Instead of allowing our unhappiness to grind love and friendship to zero or less, we should learn to leave things so that we remember each other well for our journey in which time passes through us.

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Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" - Isaiah 6:8-13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwsOdsxDZh0

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The following are my trading strategies

1. Day Trading Strategy
2. OEXT
3. Super pattern
4. ND1 and ND2
5. Spy Major
6. SOX (SOXL and SOXL)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csxo1flT530

Thank you for helping me to sort out my thoughts again.

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"Only a man who knows what it's like to be defeated can reach down into the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win." - Muhammad Ali

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If I do not enter according to my trading plan, then I am disregard sound reason and logic. If I do not follow my plan by letting my trades ride, then I am stealing from myself the full potential of a trade. If I do not exit according to my plan, then I taking too little and giving away too much, and it will show itself in my long term results.  Therefore:

1. Enter only according to my plan
2. Stay in the trade according to my plan
3. Exit only according to my plan
   a. After each exit, take a 30 minutes break before entering again

And accept all results so that I may learn to do it better going forward.

My vision and goal is to one day trade 1000 contracts regularly this way, with no expectations of results.

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"Set yourself on fire. See those who fan your flame." - Rumi

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https://ashidakim.com/zenkoans

I used many of Ashida Kim's Zen stories in my book.  I asked for permission from Mr. Kim. All the great stories help us to understanding happiness in our life's journey.  For in happiness, we give ourselves to the world and ask for nothing.  In our unhappiness, we take everything from the world and our unhappiness radiates into the world.  One of my favorite that I used was:

Ryonen's Clear Realization

The Buddhist nun known as Ryonen was born in 1797. She was a granddaughter of the famous Japanese warrior Shingen. Her poetical genius and alluring beauty were such that at seventeen she was serving the empress as one of the ladies of the court. Even at such a youthful age fame awaited her.

The beloved empress died suddenly and Ryonen's hopeful dreams vanished. She became acutely aware of the impermanency of life in this world. It was then that she desired to study Zen.

Her relatives disagreed, however, and practically forced her into marriage. With a promise that she might become a nun after she had borne three children, Ryonen assented. Before she was twenty-five she had accomplished this condition. Then her husband and relatives could no longer dissuade her from her desire. She shaved her head, took the name of Ryonen, which means to realize clearly, and started on her pilgrimage.

She came to the city of Edo and asked Tetsugyu to accept her as a disciple. At one glance the master rejected her because she was too beautiful.

Ryonen then went to another master, Hakuo. Hakuo refused her for the same reason, saying that her beauty would only make trouble.

Ryonen obtained a hot iron and placed it against her face. In a few moments her beauty had vanished forever.

Hakuo then accepted her as a disciple.

Commemorating this occasion, Ryonen wrote a poem on the back of a little mirror:

In the service of my Empress I burned incense to perfume my exquisite clothes

Now as a homeless mendicant I burn my face to enter a Zen temple.

When Ryonen was about to pass from this world, she wrote another poem:

Sixty-six times have these eyes beheld the changing scene of autumn

I have said enough about moonlight,

Ask no more.

Only listen to the voice of pines and cedars when no wind stirs.

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While in London last weekend because my son was running in the London Marathon, we saw a blind person running in the London marathon. The blind person ran locked elbow with another runner. It goes to show that we all have too many excuses for why we can't while this person found all the reasons why he could.