I hadn’t heard about this GDPR until I ran into an old work colleague yesterday – now I keep seeing it.

I have fond memories of my time in Königswinter and though I was being exploited there I was very grateful for the job and pretty much became part of the family of the hotel where I slaved in the kitchen for 12 hours a day, six days a week.

I intend to have a music conversation with @roused at some point (I did have an exchange today but it was about a photography post). Strangely enough I connected with a couple of people from his magazine on LinkedIn yesterday (I’m building up to 500+, just because it helps with visibility on there): another case of when something is drawn to your attention you start noticing it. Maybe there’s a (partly age-determined?) bias among Steemians towards pop and stuff like gaming, at the expense of (say) history and classical music / jazz. That’s just wild speculation on my part, though.

I guess you sold on the way down to $200? As I say, I’m pretty new, but I think I’ve learned something about how the market moves. At the moment I’m trying to position myself to get some alts that should bring good returns if we do get a run at some point, intending to get partly out while have the correction so as to be able to re-enter lower down. Few things are certain, but one is that there are no straight lines in direction the price will take. Of course there’s risk in trying to time the reversals, but you don’t have to do it precisely and can afford to wait until trends have been well and truly confirmed. So much manipulation though.

If I could just get myself into a better position I would then do the sensible thing and get into the really solid coins that are likely to do well over the long term and hodl, while doing a little trading with my profits. The danger to my strategy for getting to that point is the possibility we will go back to below $4K and recover only very slowly, as people like Tyler Jenks and Financial Freedom (@nasirjones007) say we will. Why do the only ones who sound sure about what’s going to happen say we’re going very low at some point? That’s why you can’t go wrong with hodling I guess, because then you can safely say "et kütt wie et kütt.”

I’ll email that book stuff in the morning: you’ll find it in Pandora’s inbox :o)