1. Trading should not be emotional. If done right, it should be boring.

2. World cotton prices – and U.S. cotton prices.

3. I do like to write a word or two about the books I read.

4. I have only ever written one review on Amazon. Why? The author asked me to.

5. (On Russia) “This isn’t a country in transition but some sort of postmodern dictatorship that uses the language and institutions of democratic capitalism for authoritarian ends.”

-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True And Everything Is Possible (Amazon)

1. Had the biggest one-day trading gain ever yesterday. And I gave it all back today.

2. We Are Seven

3. Sometimes, to succeed, all you need to do is keep going.

4. I am beginning to understand how important “scalability” is in business.

5. “If you can get through the Dip, if you can keep going when the system is expecting you to stop, you will achieve extraordinary results. People who make it through the Dip are scarce indeed, so they generate more value.”

-Seth Godin, The Dip (Amazon)