Technical Analysis: First thoughts

This post is not for you, Dear Reader. You will find the thoughts here disorganized. This post is for me to organize my thoughts. I have never read a page of Technical analysis and I am attempting some thoughts. To an experienced analyst, these will cause him to ROFL. Do yourself a favor and skip this.

Okay, so I want to use technical analysis as a tool to speculate in BitCoins.

Belief: I believe technical analysis is a useful tool for me to know when to buy and sell and in what amounts.

Now let’s start of with some other assumptions I have

assumption#1. There is no commodity that can keep rising for ever regardless of the filter you apply on the data. At some point it has to fall

assumption#1b: A commodity can fall to zero and stay there for ever

assumption#2: If a commodity rises “too fast”, then a correction is due “soon”.
What does “too fast” mean?
a) dx/dt is at a global maxima?
b) dx/dt is at a sustained global maxima for the last few days?
c dx/dt is at a sustained global maxima as is X?
And how soon is “soon”? How much correction can we expect to see?

assumption#3: All things regress to the mean.
But what is the mean? For a commodity that has been traded for a long while, some benchmarks may be available. What benchmarks are available for something like BitCoin? What is the mean? The universal mean ofcourse is 0. But what is the short term mean? Is it even reasonable talking about something like this?

assumption#4: If it is doing something unexpected and strange, it will soon stop doing that.
How is strange defined? Something that deviates from the pattern. But how to define the pattern for something like Bitcoin which is so new and revolutionary. Use other similar commodities are templates? But which ones?

assumption#5: Technical analysis is not an exact science. Far from it.

assumption#6: Emotions are the big enemy of the speculator/trader. Define a set of trading rules and a time frame for following these rules. During this time, do not deviate from the rules ever for whatever reason. After this time period is over, you may formulate new rules from the lessons learnt. But during this time, do not deviate. This cuts out the emotions from the picture.

assumption#7: A simple algorithm is more likely to work than a complicated one. An inexperienced trader like me is better off following a simple algorithm at the start. Complexities can be added later

assumption#8: The volume of buying and selling I am doing will only have a “small” impact on the stock price. The volume I am dealing with a small fraction of the total trading volume.

Simplified trading rules
1. entry point for buying X units
2. If the price goes up, the selling point. All X units sold. Profit taking. Should this be on the upswing or the downswing?
3. If price goes down, at what point to sell. All X units sold. Stop Loss.
4. No action is taken if price stays between profit taking and stop loss levels

5. If profit taken, new entry point is the same. Should the entry be on the upswing or the downswing? And what sort of filter should we be applying on the data to define an upswing or a downswing? Stop loss and profit taking points remain the same.

6. If stop loss, then the new entry point is the old stop loss point. The new selling point is the old entry point. A new stop loss point needs to be defined.

7. Given that my long term view is bullish, should not the new entry point be higher than the old entry point for every profit taken? or at least the new selling point be higher than the old selling point? OR Should the selling and stop loss points stay the same during the defined time period?

8. Given that most chart patterns look so chaotic and noisy, is there any meaning to the words upswing and downswing? Probably not.

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1. Now I decide to read something on investopedia. Apparently technical analysis has three assumptions
a. The market discounts everything: unspoken agreement
b. Prices move in trends: assumptions 2,3 and 4
c. history repeats: assumptions 2,3,4

2. I can already seem some limitations in technical analysis, i.e. Efficient market hypothesis: This is true for the long term, but not for the short term.

3. Trend: The trend for digital currency is upwards. How do I define a trend length?

I declare the BitCoin speculation season open.

I am looking into speculation in BitCoins. I am abandoning my long held disdain for trading and technical analysis. I feel quite excited by the promise of Digital Currencies and would certainly like to contribute to this cause. Anything that reduces the power of coercive agents and strikes a blow for free and voluntary exchange among individuals can count me as an ally. I believe that speculating in BitCoin is a way for me to contribute to this cause. After all I am adding my capital into the mix by speculating. As the Austrian school of economics understands, speculating is a good thing as it reduces fluctuations. According to the Austrian school, speculators reduce fluctuations, not cause it. A view with which I am in full agreement. Some thoughts regarding speculating

1. The speculation is not purely for money making. Part of it, like buying Gold, is philosophical. It is my way of kicking the wall street bankers and their creepy cronies, the politicians and bureaucrats in the teeth. Every time I buy Gold or a Digital currency, I kick them in the teeth. If I lose money doing it, so be it. There is no shame in losing having fought for a worthy cause.

2. My view is that Digital Currencies are here to stay. Though Bitcoin itself might collapse, Digital currencies will be around. So I will speculate in a basket of Digital Currencies. To start off with, my portfolio will contain BitCoins and RippleCoins in some ratio, which will be determined later. I will also keep a watch on new Digital currency systems and add the viable ones to the portfolio as and when they appear. I hope to create a basket of Digital Currencies to speculate in.

3. I am primarily a long. I will not short BitCoin or RippleCoin or any Digital currency (unless it is a case of fraud) in favor of any Fiat currency. If I do short a digital currency, it will only be in favor or another Digital currency, or precious metals. I expect the state to clamp down on digital currencies at some point. I expect the Digital currencies to take a hit at that point. If I can anticipate the event, I short. Whatever my gains from the shorts, I put it in Gold. The Fiat currency is just an intermediate.

4. I will set aside a small sum of money which I am willing to lose in this entire experiment, say X dollars. My first purchase will be a fraction of X. If I lose the entire sum, I close the experiment for Good. For ever. I keep playing as long as I have some of the X dollars. This rule is iron-clad.

5. The primary tool I plan to use in speculating is technical analysis.

Do you have any suggestions as to what other tools I must use?

BitCoin: State interference

In earlier posts
http://masculineffort.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/bitcoin-is-inflation-of-digital-currency-systems-possible/

http://masculineffort.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/some-questions-about-bit-coins/

I had raised some concerns regarding the long term viability of Digital Currency Systems from two points of view
1. Technical concerns: Safety/Forgery/Fraud/privacy/reliability etc
2. Barriers to entry being too low

Both the above concerns do not bother me any more. But permit me to add a new concern
3. State intervention: This is believe is another concern that is not trivial and must be looked into in some detail.

Let us analyse this by asking questions and performing thought experiments.

Q1. Are decentralized Digital Currency systems in the state’s intereste?
Ans. No. Of course not. Easy. Next!

Q2. So if Digital currency networks start gaining acceptance, would the state try to clamp down?
Ans. Ofcourse. Easy. Next

Q3. If the state tries to clamp down, would it be successful? Entirely successful? Partially successful?
ans. This, I believe is the question that we must answer.

What is it that the state can do to shut down the Digital Currency network?

Legal Steps and their effects
The state could declare that any BitCoin transactions are illegal and impose hefty penalties. This would effectively drive BitCoin transactions underground or abroad to other shores.

Let’s answer the question of movement to other shores right away. All states have fiat currency systems which are extremely lucrative to them. BitCoin is not in the interest of any state. I can see various governments collaborating with each other in order to destroy BitCoin. And in the developed world, I dare say they would largely be successful. For BitCoin, there would be literally nowhere to run.

BitCoin transactions would be limited to the Black Market, the underground economy, and dysfunctional states. Certainly no big company such as wal-mart would accept them. Small merchants might also say fuck it as they would be in no position to fight any legal challenges the state throws down at them. We would be left with black marketeers, smugglers, BitCoin die-hards and states where currency mismanagement is so bad that even normally law abiding citizens accept the risks of breaking the law. But it would not have a snowball’s chance in hell under a monetary system with steady 5%-10% inflation per annum. This issue of state opposition, I feel, is a significant limiting factor to the widespread use of BitCoin. Unless this question is satisfactorily answered by the BitCoin luminaries such as Peter Surda at

http://www.economicsofbitcoin.com/

I will prefer to stay away from BitCoin even as a speculative instrument, let alone a monetary one.

Additional comment: April 14, 2013: The only way that the mainstream law abiding folk will use BitCoin under a government ban is if it becomes impossible for the government to catch people transacting in BitCoins. The analogy is a government ban on “thinking” about anal sex under penalty of death. Since the government cannot get into people’s heads and know what they are thinking, this ban is meaningless. My question is, “Is BitCoin at this level of anonymity?”

Bitcoin: Is inflation of Digital currency systems possible?

In an earlier post

http://masculineffort.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/some-questions-about-bit-coins/

I had raised some concerns about Bit Coins. Those are broadly divided into two categories
1. Technical concerns
2. Barriers to entry from competitors

While I am not qualified to discuss technical concerns, my feeling is that all technical issues will eventually be resolved. My biggest concern is regarding inflation by means of other competitors jumping onto the Digital currency bandwagon and thus diluting the buying power of BitCoin. My assumption was that it is not all that technically difficult to form another digital currency network and therefore each additional digital currency will dilute the purchasing power of a unit of BitCoin. A comment by Peter Surda, on my last post on Bitcoin convinced me to do a rethink. Now I am not so sure that it is so easy for a competitor to muscle into a mature Digital Currency space and dilute the purchasing power of the existing players. Peter has an excellent blog on various aspects of BitCoin at

http://www.economicsofbitcoin.com/

He also has a master’s thesis on the topic that you can obtain by doing a simple google search. I’m reading it at the moment, and I expect the effort to last a few days. In the meantime, let’s do some analysis with some questions

What is the Primary reason that BitCoin use is expanding?
Bitcoin’s main competitors are various fiat currencies all of which are rotten with some being extremely rotten. It does not take much to displace them. I hear several businesses in Argentina are now accepting BitCoins. The Argentine Peso is a truly sick currency. It does not take much to displace the Peso. It is my view that if various central banks had not made such a mess of their national currencies, BitCoin would have no takers. The early adopters of BitCoins have been desperate people with few options (eg: Businesses in Argentina). If there were to be a hyper-inflationary environment in any country now, I bet that there would be a stampede to get into BitCoin among people in that country. The current spike in BitCoin would seem like a molehill in comparison to that mountain. Note that BitCoin is not displacing any national currency yet. It is merely muscling in on some of the transaction. This can be expected to continue as long as central banks continue their policy of competitive devaluation. Here BitCoin is providing users a significant advantage over their Fiat competitors.

If BitCoin becomes established, can copycat competitors muscle in?
When I say copycat competitor, I mean another network which is similar to BitCoin. Another network not providing any significant advantages over BitCoin. So let’s do this thought experiment.

Let’s assume that BitCoin is an established player as a medium of exchange or a store of value in the Digital Currency space. Now another currency, say Bytecoin comes up. Could ByteCoins displace BitCoins from some of the market share just by virtue of being available as an option to buyers and sellers.

Let’s analyse this from a point of view of a business that accepts BitCoins. Suppose I am the owner of a Business that accepts BitCoins. Would I now start accepting ByteCoins which is a brand new Digital currency network? Before I accept ByteCoins from my customers, I would ask myself the following questions
1. Does ByteCoin give me some significant advantage over BitCoin?
2. Will it be easy for me to redeem ByteCoins?
3. Would my suppliers accept ByteCoins?
4. Could I use ByteCoins for personal or business transactions?

The answer to all questions above is probably No. It is currently very hard to redeem ByteCoins in comparison to BitCoins. The reason is that the ByteCoin network is so much smaller than the BitCoin network. The reason I would be so reluctant to accept Bytecoins is that difficulty in redeeming them due to the small size of the ByteCoin network. And the reason that the ByteCoin network is so small is the reluctance of business owners to accept the new currency. This is a classic positive Feedback loop or the chicken and the egg problem. It is well known that it will be far harder for me to redeem a ByteCoin over a BitCoin. Also, only a minority of my customers want to pay in ByteCoins (Due to the small size of the ByteCoin network). Why then would I accept a ByteCoin? It sounds like too much effort for a small amount of revenue.

The only valid reason for me to accept a ByteCoin is if there is a fundamental Flaw with BitCoin. But since I have assumed above that ByteCoin is similar to BitCoin, there is no real reason for me to accept ByteCoin

 

 

Once BitCoin is established, what features are needed for a viable competitor
From the analysis so far, we get some indications as how to how some other digital currency could muscle in on Bitcoin and dilute it’s purchasing power
1. The new currency provides a significant competitive/technical/technological advantage over BitCoin
2. Some Big Flaw is exposed in the BitCoin network
3. The new digital currency has backing from a big corporate house (a competitive advantage again. Just a rewording of 1.)

This is a big relief for me. My earlier assumption was that the barriers to entry were very low. This assumption is wrong. The barriers to entry are not low. Once BitCoin is established, it will be very difficult for copycat competitors with no significant advantage to muscle in on the Digital currency space and dilute the purchasing power of the established players.

Conclusion
While inflation of Digital currency networks is possible, it is not easy. Nowhere as easy as the inflation of the fiat currency systems. New competitors can certainly enter the Digital currency space at any time, but it is nowhere as easy as I originally thought.

How to actually put UOB Gold and UOB Silver accounts to good use

In my previous posts on UOB Gold and Silver, I expressed concern whether the Gold and Silver accounts at UOB were really backed by physical metal. While I do not have the answer, I have grave reservations. After all the paper gold market exceed the physical gold market by a factor of 10:1. For silver the ratio is greater than 100:1. Scary stuff. With numbers like these, I start doubting all paper metal contracts and would not recommend them to long term investors who are primarily worried about currency depreciation. And with GST abolished on most precious metal investments in Singapore, and with safety deposit boxes costing less than $100/yr, there is even less reason for the long term singaporean investor to go the UOB way.

But that does not mean that UOB Gold and UOB silver is useless. It is useful to certain classes of people
1. Speculators
2. Traders
3. Precious metals dealers

I will tackle the last category in this one. In fact I know at least one precious metal dealer in Singapore who uses UOB Gold and Silver in this way. For purposes of this post lets call him Jin.

Jin runs a precious metals dealership. His business is selling precious metal coins and bars to clients. He charges a dealer premium of anywhere from 3% – 15% depending on the product. He makes his income from this dealer premium. Fair enough. 

Now when a client places an order with Jin, he must sell at the market price. Suppose the market price for Gold at the time of placing the order was SG$2000/oz, then Jin must sell the Gold at $2080 (assuming 4% dealer premium) to the client. It does not matter at what price Jin bought the Gold. Jin might have bought the Gold two months prior when the Gold price was $2500/oz. It does not matter. Jin must sell at SG$2080 and incur the $420 loss. Jin cannot tell the client that he bought at SG$2500 and so will only sell at that price. He cannot tell the client to come back later. That is bad business. So what must Jin do?

Some of you will argue that it does not matter that Jin incurs a loss on THIS transaction. After all he conducts thousands of such transactions a year and in the end everything averages out. This is true. But Jin needs a steady income. Jin is happier making a steady income of SG$10000/month instead of making no income for 11 months a year and making SG$120000 in the last month. Though he has made the same money for the year in both cases, the second case is too uncertain. It feels too much like gambling. It is unsteady. It is erratic. And if Jin goes that route, he will lose his hair, his health, his erection and his wife. Nope, Jin needs a steady income for the sake of his sanity. So what to do?

Another solution is that whenever he receives an order from a client, Jin himself must place a similar order at the same time with the Gold refiner/mint from where Jin gets his supplies. This way Jin is merely an intermediary/middleman between the refiner and the client. And the extra 4% commission is his income. However if a client places an order with Jin for 1 ounce Gold, Jin cannot place an order of 1 ounce with the refiner or a mint. Jin can only place big orders with the mint/refiner. Those guys deliver only to big Gold orders such as 400 oz at a time. So Jin probably makes only a few big orders per year with the big refiner at some times of the year while he conducts thousands of small transactions with his clients all year round.  So now what to do?

Some of you will say that Jin must buy on dips. Fair enough. Buy on dips and sell on peaks is a common trading mantra. But how the hell are you supposed to know whether what you are experiencing is a dip or just a part of a valley. Sure the price is low. But it could go even lower next month when a majority of Jin’s customers might order. Besides, Jin is a Gold dealer. Not a trader. He makes his income on the commission, not on trading. If he had good trading instincts, he would focus on trading and make his income that way. Why the hell must he sell Gold to you? He is not a fool! So what must he do?

Enter UOB Gold and UOB Silver. Both these investments charge very little premium (less than the dealer premium) on the buying and selling of Gold. And you can place small orders with them. Aha! This is very useful for Jin. So every time a client places an order with Jin for a few ounces of Gold, Jin buys the exact same amount from UOB Gold. He pays UOB a commission of 0.5% while he gets a 4% commission from the client. This is a total of 3.5% which he gets. Jin is happy to sacrifice the 0.5% for a little bit of stability in cash flow. And every time Jin has to make an order with the Refiner, he sells all his UOB gold and buys the exact same amount from the refiner. Thus UOB Gold becomes an intermediary that allows Jin to hedge. UOB Gold becomes a hedging instrument. It is useful as a hedging instrument. 

To be sure, Jin does not depend on UOB Gold entirely. He still does some trading. If there is an obvious dIp (like today where Gold dipped to US$1521/oz), he still places a large order with the refiner. It is just that UOB Gold allows him the luxury of Hedging and generating a bit more stable cash flow for a small penalty (The UOB premium)

Thus paper Gold/Silver instruments do have some uses to people who buy and sell often. Just not to small fry like you and I who are trying to protect our savings from inflation.

Update: April 15, 2013
As I write this, the price of silver is around SG$29/oz. No dealer in the world is going to sell physical silver to you at this price. This is your chance to pick up some cheap silver from UOB as they will sell at any price. Now one day (in a few weeks or months), silver will be back to SG$40/oz. At that price dealers will sell. When that day arrives, you sell all the silver in the UOB account and use the cash to buy some physical silver from the dealer. In this way, even though you paid the Dealer $40/oz, you effectively bought it for $29/oz. Now do you see the uses for UOB Silver and Gold? This is the correct way to use the UOB Silver and Gold account for humble Singaporeans like you and I.

The metals have suddenly crashed for no fundamentally sound reason. Here is a chance for you and China to pick up some precious metals on the cheap. As Max Keiser says imitating the Chinese people “Confucius Say, IMF stupid, sell Gold, we buy”. Take the comment in Good humor please. Do not get uptight and accuse Max of racism. He has a lot of admiration for the Chinese people.

Some questions about Bit Coins

There has been a lot of interest regarding bit coins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin) recently. Basically it is an internet based currency that some are claiming is the wave of the future.  A big reason for the recent interest is the parabolic rise it has experienced this year. It started the year around $13 and got to $260 at some point in the last few days before plunging to $100 and going back up to $160. Still an over all 12 fold rise. Quite impressive I must say. I received an email from a friend as well as my Dad with each asking how they can get hold of this digital Gold so to speak. This remind anyone of the Dot com mania of the late 1990s? Or the real estate bubble that followed it?

It is not my intention to pan or praise this currency. Just to investigate it? How does it stack up as a currency. I will confess that I do not know much about how digital currency works. But I simply wish to raise some questions that I believe must be answered before anyone wished to buy Bitcoins. Keep in mind that I am talking about people who wish to hold bit coins the way they hold dollars, euros or gold. For transactions and as a store of value. If your intention is to speculate in bitcoin, then I will be of little help. I don’t speculate. I’m the worst speculator in the world. My timing is spectacularly and consistently atrocious. So without much ado, let us raise some questions about Bit coins.   

Rarity
A big reason why Gold is such a good currency is it’s relative rarity. This is why Iron is not money. Iron is too abundantly available in nature. On this count Bit coins are a good currency. Apparently only 21 million bit coins will ever be released into perpetuity. Thus a bit coin has the advantage of rarity. But that does not mean that Digital currency itself has the advantage of rarity. The Bit coin network was created by a bunch of people. Another bunch of people are perfectly capable of creating another digital currency network called the Byte coin. So here are my questions

1. What prevents competitors from flooding the market with their own digital currencies and destroying the rarity of BitCoin?
2. Why are there no viable competitors up to this point? To be sure , there is a competitor called the ripple network (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_monetary_system). But this begs another question. Why did the BitCoin network take off and not the ripple network?

If it so happens that creating a Digital currency network is not all that difficult, then Bit coins will crash as the rarity is no longer there.

Ease/Difficulty of Inflating the currency
Gold has an advantage over paper currency in the sense that it is very difficult to inflate, i.e. it is very difficult to bring new Gold into the market. Gold mining is expensive. To buy an ounce Gold costs only twice of what it takes to mine it. Not so with paper money. Paper money can be created at a whim and negligible cost compared to it’s face value. That is why paper money is so prone to inflation. On this count bit coins come up trumps. There will not be more than 21 million Bit coins created. Thus if BitCoin is the only digital currency that will ever be created, then bit coin is the perfect currency. Even better than Gold. But I suspect that it is not all that difficult to create other digital currency networks. The proliferation of other currency networks also has an inflationary effect. Thus I repeat my question from the last para
1. What prevents competitors from flooding the market with their own digital currencies and thus inflating the Digital currency system?
2. How do new bit coins come into existence?
3. How much effort is needed to bring new bit coins into existence? In terms of man hours? In terms of computing power? In terms of materiel? In terms of bit coins already in existence?

Intrinsic Value
Critics of Bitcoin have pointed out that a bitcoin has no intrinsic value and is thus useless. This, I believe, is unfair. Paper money also has no intrinsic value. Gold also has an intrinsic value (if industrial applications are considered) that is far lower than it’s market price. The intrinsic value of Gold is it’s use as money. Same with BitCoin. This, incidentally is where Platinum, silver and palladium score over Gold and bit coins. Their intrinsic value is at par with their value as money.

Incorruptibility
Gold is a noble metal. It does not rust or react with a lot of other elements. It can be stored safely without damage for hundreds of years. Paper money by contrast is very easy to damage by fire, water, earth or air. On this count, the question is
How easy or hard is it to corrupt or damage a bit coin?

Forgery and detection
Gold is forged in several ways, i.e. by iron pyrites (Fool’s Gold), mixing with other metals, making huge bars of Gold with an iron core etc. But in general a common man can detect forgery/purity with simple methods like pumice stones, density tests etc. This is where Gold scores over platinum. You pretty much need an expert to detect a platinum forgery. As for paper money, no comments! So the question for BitCoin is
How easy or difficult is it to forge a bit coin? How easy or hard is to detect the forgery. What is the forgery Vs detection effort ratio? A good currency is hard to forge and the forgery easy to detect.

Divisibility
This is why eggs and tennis rackets are not currency. What if you only want to spend half an egg? Gold is minutely divisible as is a bit coin. A bit coin is divisible into 100 million units. Good!

Decentralized control
The only reason national currencies are money is that if you refuse to accept them in return for goods and services you will be arrested. Their use is not voluntary. It is compulsory. Only national government are allowed to issue currency. If you try to issue your own currency, you will be treated worse than a child molester. Not so with Gold. Anyone can mine Gold and the acceptance of Gold is purely voluntary. No one is ever jailed for refusing to accept Gold. Same with Bitcoins. Anyone can mine them. There is no law to prevent you from mining bit coins. There is no law forcing you to accept bit coins. So on this count bitcoins win.

Other questions
1. What is public key cryptography?
2. What sort of cryptography is Bit coin using? How does that work?
3. What sort of people/organizations/hardware have a natural advantage in mining bit coins?
4. What limits the rate of current bit coin generation given infinite manpower and computing power?
5. Can the network be hacked/manipulated? Instances of fraud?
6. How does one lose a bit coin?

Conclusion
It is too early to bring the verdict on bit coin. It seems a perfect currency except when looked at from one angle. What are the barriers to entry for other Digital currency such as Byte Coin? This is the million Bitcoin question! If the barriers to entry are high, then Bitcoin is very viable. I will myself go out and buy some. But if they are low, as I suspect, then it is best to wait and watch. I mean if some anonymous guys can create a digital currency network like Bitcoin, how hard could it be for several competitors to come up with their own versions? My advice. Don’t buy. Just wait and watch.

Speculative question: Is it possible to design a Digital currency with intrinsic value? What would that value be?
1. Computing power?: Nah! too inflationary!
2. Internet bandwidth?: Naah! Too inflationary
3. *Your guess here*

physiotherapy Diary 5: Thoracic outlet syndrome

I got this problem after doing cable rolls. The correct way to do this is shoulders down and back. I did it shoulders back and down and screwed myself. It could not have been the weight as I was doing only ten lbs. So some ways to fix this

1. A youtube video explains it well

2. Some links from the livestrong foundation
a. href=”http://www.livestrong.com/article/468857-physical-therapy-at-home-for-thoracic-outlet-syndrome/” title=”One”>
b. href=”http://www.livestrong.com/article/433591-thoracic-outlet-syndrome-therapy-exercises/” title=”Two”>
c. href=”http://www.livestrong.com/article/410979-safe-exercises-for-thoracic-outlet-syndrome/” title=”Three”>
d. href=”http://www.livestrong.com/article/444075-list-of-physical-therapy-exercises-to-treat-thoracic-outlet-syndrome/” title=”Four”>

3. A write up on self myofascial release: https://www.oakham.rutland.sch.uk/uploadedFiles/Website/Sport/Strength_and_Conditioning/PDFs/Self%20Myofascial%20Release.pdf

4. Sleep on your back, not on your sides. This is another way people screw themselves

5. While working on the computer, make it a habit to have good posture. The head/neck should not lean forward. It should be aligned with the rest of the body.

6. Shoulders pulled down while typing using mouse.