My Morning Stock Struggle
Woke up staring at OLPX stock charts again. Felt totally lost – green lines, red lines, all mixed up like spaghetti. Needed a simple way to decide: buy, sell, or hide under my blanket?
Stumbled on this stupidly basic method:
- Grab last 5 days’ closing prices
- Count how many “up days” vs “down days”
- If more ups → buy signal
- If more downs → sell signal
- If tie → just wait it out
Figured I’d try it manually first. Dug through OLPX’s recent prices:
Monday: $27 up
Tuesday: $26 down
Wednesday: $27.5 up
Thursday: $26.8 down
Friday: $27.2 up
Counted on my fingers like a kid: up, down, up, down, up. Three ups! My cheap calculator almost cried from being used after years.
Building My Ghetto Tool
Typed those numbers into Google Sheets later. Wrote this ugly formula:
=IF(COUNTIF(B2:B6,”up”)>COUNTIF(B2:B6,”down”), “BUY DUMMY”, IF(COUNTIF(B2:B6,”down”)>COUNTIF(B2:B6,”up”), “SELL NOW”, “CHILL”))
Filled in the daily “up/down” notes beside prices. Sheet instantly shouted “BUY DUMMY” at me in red text. Felt oddly proud of my trash spreadsheet.
Why this actually worked for me:
- No fancy terms = no brain melt
- Forces me to actually look at daily moves
- Stops emotional “maybe tomorrow?” crap
- Takes 2 minutes instead of 2 hours
Obviously not perfect. That random Tuesday dump? My cheap method totally ignored how big drops happened. But for quick gut-check before coffee? Hell yes. Saved me from panic-selling last Thursday dip. Might actually keep using this junk method.
