So I think you are right about the winds last Friday, on Saturday I noted there was a lot of trucks pulling containers again. However today, no wind, and truck traffic was down again.
Market keeps going up up up, new highs nearly every day. Maybe I was pre-mature, but I'm still going to keep the cash that I took out last week, which was a small percentage of my portfolio. Read an article to today about the norks, they are denying that they have any cases of Kung Flu to report, so that doesn't portend well given that they share a border with China. ------------- Max Charleston SC On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 12:17 PM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I think it is high winds today. I drove my truck across the Stono bridge > yesterday afternoon and it was kinda scary > > --FT > Sent from iPhone > > > On Feb 7, 2020, at 10:16 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > Today on my way to work, there was a significant reduction in the > number of > > trucks pulling shipping containers. The Port of Charleston is one of the > > largest on the East Coast of the US. > > > > During the big crash in 2000, I noted that this traffic dropped of > > significantly a week or so before the stock market tanked. > > > > Perhaps today's reduction is due to the high winds and the bridges these > > trucks have to cross, and a big portion of the drivers are staying off > the > > road for safety reasons. > > > > I'm probably going to pull back today, sell off some of my index funds > and > > park that money in cash, maybe buy some GLD (a gold index). Nothing > > radical, maybe 5% or 10%. If the drop in shipping container traffic > > continues into next week, I'll probably sell off more. > > > > > > ------------- > > Max > > Charleston SC > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
