Fourteen long ideas with good-looking charts (even though I think the market is high).

Festivities for the 25th anniversary of “Die Wallfall”, the fall of the Berlin Wall between the old Communist East Germany and the rest of the world were rather subdued because the now free German railroad workers went on strike. Strikes were illegal in the old German “Workers' Paradise”.

Today was a bad day for trading, but as I told subscribers to take some money off the table Sunday, after the boomlet which closed last week, I followed through today.

Scotland turned out to be canny and not so brave. The same can be said for Alibaba, which came out at the top of its estimated range, but not a penny higher and promptly rose ~40% on its 1st day in public trading.

Today I answer some readers questions, have a note about the Holy Ghost at The Mouth of Hell, a stock downrating, and news from China, Israel, Mongolia, Canada, Britain, and fund updates.

It's all very well for the Scots to vote for independence, but who is giving a voice to the Picts? Back when Hadrian was building his wall it was intended to stop Roman Britain from attacks by the Scots and the Picts!