Herman the First, Not Henry the 8th

I bought my first Herman Miller Aeron chair on Sunday. It's the first one I have owned but certainly won't be the last.

Having sat in the chair all day, I can report that I am at least 50% less tired and my performance today was better due to the increased concentration. Funny how things like this can help. I got it for about 70% off as it was a re-sale coming from one of the large bank mergers we have seen due to the apocalypse of the last few years. Seems that this bank had over $2,000,000 worth of just these chairs.

I first experienced one of these chairs in 2001 when I was working out of Chicago. The firm there had 60 of them and I really loved it. The price was the thing that stopped me buying one until now. I guess that I didn't really need the extra comfort until now - old farthood is getting closer. But as it approaches with it's downsides, I realize I wouldn't swap the downsides for all the benefits I have from the experience I have accumulated. Which brings me to trading in a round about way as things usually do.  Kiki and I were talking about screen time and I was saying there is nothing you can do trading wise to replace its value.  Screen time, be it live or SIM, will give you that "muscle memory" you need to react to all the situations you encounter and recognise what is happening.  So I did a rough estimate of the amount of hours I've spent watching, studying, sitting in front of a screen or being on the floor and the low estimate number I've come up with is about 100,000 hours.

The morning in London was like watching paint dry, white paint at that. After lunch, after a false start there was finally a reasonable trade around 3pm London time which gave about a 4 handle run to the Keltner upper limit. As you can see, I'm displaying the smoothed CVD as a histogram. It looks clearer to me.

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