Monday, December 30, 2019

Enfitnix XLite 100 Smart Tail Light

I purchased the ENFITNIX XLite 100 Smart Tail light for my bicycle.  Since I can't see it while I am riding and I have not remembered to ask those riding behind me (of which there are very few) I do not know how this perfroms.  I do know that I have it set on automatic and I have it on a table in my garage and if the table is bumped or very slightly touched the light recognizes the motion and turns on.

Since I could not find the manual for this thing on line and I hate keeping hard copies of manuals or anything paper, I have scanned it and added it to this link for anyone else to use:

 ENFITNIX XLite 100 Smart Tail Light

Thursday, August 1, 2019

The Motley Fool Effect

I subscribe to the Motley Fool Stock Advisor (their lowest level I believe) where you are sent stock recommendations about every week.  I don't always buy their recommendations but occasionally I do if I feel the recommended stock fits my overall strategy.

An interesting phenomenon I have noticed is that on some of the stocks (especially the smaller cap stocks) immediately after the Motley Fool email is sent recommending the stock the volume and price jump on that stock.

Case in point: the recommendation today is Charlotte's Web Holdings (CWBHF) and the email I received today at 1:38 PM GMT -4 (EDT).  Take a look at what happened after the recommendation was sent out:


There was an immediate spike at 1:00 PM.  Did some people get the email before me?  Did someone know that the email was going to go out and bought beforehand?  Are they staggering the emails sent?  Does my email server (Office 365) suck and not deliver my mail in a timely fashion?

Who is acting on the recommendation before I get it?  Are Motely Fool employees buying the stock before the emails are sent out?

In this case it is not a big deal to me because I don't particularly like this stock but if it were one that I really liked, I would be upset that everyone else was able to buy early and drive up the price before me.