This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend the TSAA annual conference in San Francisco. TSAA, for those not familiar with it, is a technical analysis organization founded around 1970. One of TSAA’s founding members, the late Hank Pruden, was a professor at Golden Gate University and a remarkable teacher of technical analysis out on the west coast. It was a unique experience to attend the conference since Hank’s passing in 2018, and see the conference is still thriving and watching Hank’s legacy live on.  

A former boss of mine was fascinated by the Japanese art of Kaizen, which centers around the principle of continuous improvement. It teaches us to always be on the lookout for even the smallest of steps we can take in our lives that will be the most meaningful and impactful in the long run.

In preparing for an upcoming move from Cleveland to Seattle, we’re going through our belongings Marie Kondo-style to determine what we really need to take with us on this next adventure…

We walked out of the airport in Glasgow, dazed from jet lag and squinting in the sunshine as day felt like night.  Stumbling over to the rental car building, I was easily talked into a larger car (by European standards) which still would not be nearly enough room for our sizable load of luggage (by American standards)…