Movies Watched in March 2026

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I now think the goal of watching 50 movies a month is a little crazy so I’m dropping it to a more manageable 30 a month. Check out the January 2026 and February 2026 lists.

Here is what I watched in March, listed alphabetically:

  1. A Shot in the Dark, 1964

  2. Basic Training, 1971

  3. Blade Runner, 1982

  4. Bonjour Tristesse, 1958

  5. Diary of a Mad Housewife, 1970

  6. Earth, 1930

  7. El Bruto, 1953

  8. Harper, 1966

  9. Johnny Guitar, 1954

  10. Kuroneko, 1968

  11. La Bete Humaine, 1938

  12. My Life As a Dog, 1985

  13. Petite Maman, 2021

  14. Pina, 2011

  15. Rashomon, 1950

  16. Rebel Without a Cause, 1955

  17. Sleuth, 1972

  18. Summertime, 1955

  19. The 400 Blows, 1959

  20. The Exterminating Angel, 1962

  21. The Merchant of Four Seasons, 1971

  22. The Milky Way, 1936

  23. The Servant, 1963

  24. The Swimmer, 1968

  25. The Thin Blue Line, 1988

  26. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 1964

  27. Three Colours: White, 1994

  28. Titicut Follies, 1967

  29. To Be Or Not To Be, 1942

  30. Un Chien Andalou, 1962

  31. Watership Down, 1978

  32. Where Is the Friend's House, 1983

  33. Wild Strawberries, 1957

  34. Woman in the Dunes, 1964

  35. Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939

The movies that I consider must-see among these are listed below:

  1. Blade Runner, 1982 (director: Ridley Scott)

  2. The Merchant of Four Seasons, 1971 (director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

  3. To Be Or Not To Be, 1932 (director: Ernst Lubitsch)

  4. Woman in the Dunes, 1964 (director: Hiroshi Teshigahara)

States With Two Republican Senators

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Names in bold are senators whose terms expire in 2027.

  1. Alabama, Tommy Tuberville, Katie Britt

  2. Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan

  3. Arkansas, John Boozman, Tom Cotton

  4. Florida, Rick Scott, Ashley Moody

  5. Idaho, Mike Crapo, Jim Risch

  6. Indiana, Todd Young, Jim Banks

  7. Iowa, Chuck Grassley, Joni Ernst

  8. Kansas, Jerry Moran, Roger Marshall

  9. Kentucky, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul

  10. Louisiana, Bill Cassidy, John Kennedy

  11. Mississippi, Roger Wicker, Cindy Hyde-Smith

  12. Missouri, Josh Hawley, Eric Schmitt

  13. Montana, Steve Daines, Tim Sheehy

  14. Nebraska, Deb Fischer, Pete Ricketts

  15. North Carolina, Thom Tillis, Ted Budd

  16. North Dakota, John Hoeven, Kevin Cramer

  17. Ohio, Bernie Moreno, Jon Husted

  18. Oklahoma, James Lankford, Alan Armstrong

  19. South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, Tim Scott

  20. South Dakota, John Thune, Mike Rounds

  21. Tennessee, Marsha Blackburn, Bill Haggerty

  22. Texas, John Cornyn, Ted Cruz

  23. Utah, Mike Lee, John Curtis

  24. West Virginia, Shelley Moore Capito, Jim Justice

  25. Wyoming, John Barrasso, Cynthia Lummis

Susan Collins, from split-state Maine, is the 20th Republican senator whose term expires in 2027. It’s vital that all of these Republican senators are voted out of office in November.

Check out this post from 2021: U.S. Senate has fewest split delegations since direct elections began

Worst Adverse Excursions in March 2026

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March was an amazing month for the blind shorts, with next to no outlier losses and hundreds and hundreds of winning trades.

Don’t forget to look at the outlier moves in October 2025 (23), November 2025 (5), December 2025 (6), January 2026 (10), and February 2026 (9)

ARTL, 3/27:

CIIT (Hong Kong), 3/9:

EEIQ, 3/26:

MOBX, 3/3:

SWMR, 3/17:

TMDE, 3/2:

UCAR (China), 3/17:

UGRO, 3/25:

VCIG (Malaysia), 3/4:

WNW (China), 3/16:

Maoxian's One a Day Playlist for March 2026

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Here is the One a Day playlist for March 2026. Check out the One a Day playlists for both February and January.

My musical taste is as eclectic as it is superlative so you should listen closely to the selections. The songs are ordered chronologically from latest to earliest:

  1. Melissa Leveaux, do as I say

  2. Mitski, Charon's Obol

  3. Momoko Gill, Heavy

  4. Tyler Ballgame, I Believe In Love

  5. Black Sea Dahu, Ruth

  6. Cat Clyde, Wild One

  7. Yael Naim, La fille pas cool

  8. Bad Bunny, Lo Que Le Paso a Hawaii

  9. Maribou State, Bloom

  10. Turnstile, I Care

  11. OMA, Do For Love

  12. Sinj Clarke, Yves

  13. Ruthee, Ailleurs

  14. Ours Samplus, Sleepy

  15. Meskerem Mees, Joe

  16. Gregory Alan Isakov, Saint Valentine

  17. Ali Farka Toure Sabu, Yerkoy

  18. Phoebe Killdeer, The Fade Out Line

  19. Ray LaMontagne, This Love Is Over

  20. Oxmo Puccino, 365 Jours

  21. Omara Portuondo, Maria Bethania, Tal Vez

  22. Scarface, On My Block

  23. Broadcast, Come On Let's Go

  24. Nas, Memory Lane

  25. Joe Jackson, It's Different for Girls

  26. Johnny Paycheck,  She's All I've Got

  27. Carpenters, Mr. Guder

  28. Iron Butterfly, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

  29. Dorothy Ashby, Afro-Harping

  30. The Left Banke, Walk Away Renee

  31. Los Zafiros, Un Nombre de Mujer

Stock Brokers Available at TradingView

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As of March 22, 2026, name, number of accounts:

  1. Interactive Brokers, 334,400

  2. WeBull, 265,200

  3. TradeStation, 130,000

  4. moomoo, 77,400

  5. Alpaca, 19,800

  6. tastytrade, 17,400

  7. Tradier Brokerage, 4,900

  8. TradeZero, 3,600

  9. Cobra Trading, 17

Dollar Volume By Exchange in CIIT Short Squeeze

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They launched another 6,500% squeeze this morning … scary.

  1. $1,272,986, NYSE Arca, Inc.

  2. $892,657, FINRA Alternative Display Facility

  3. $493,940, Members Exchange

  4. $403,410, Cboe EDGX

  5. $351,515, Nasdaq

  6. $281,490, MIAX Pearl

  7. $10,833, NYSE National, Inc.

  8. $8,935, Cboe BZX

  9. $7,172, New York Stock Exchange

  10. $2,890, Cboe BYX

  11. $1,941, Cboe EDGA

  12. $1,000, 24X National Exchange LLC

  13. $920, Nasdaq Philadelphia Exchange LLC

  14. $576, NYSE American, LLC

  15. $262, Investors Exchange

  16. $86, Nasdaq OMX BX, Inc.

Otto Penzler's 101 Greatest Movies of Mystery and Suspense

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Sorted chronologically:

  1. Bulldog Drummond, 1929

  2. Little Caesar, 1930

  3. The Public Enemy, 1931

  4. Freaks, 1932

  5. Scarface, 1932

  6. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 1932

  7. The Kennel Murder Case, 1933

  8. The Thin Man, 1934

  9. The 39 Steps, 1935

  10. Charlie Chan at the Opera, 1936

  11. The Petrified Forest, 1936

  12. Dead End, 1937

  13. The Lady Vanishes, 1938

  14. The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939

  15. Foreign Correspondent, 1940

  16. Rebecca, 1940

  17. High Sierra, 1941

  18. I Wake Up Screaming, 1941

  19. Suspicion, 1941

  20. The Maltese Falcon, 1941

  21. The Glass Key, 1942

  22. The Gun for Hire, 1942

  23. Shadow of a Doubt, 1943

  24. The Woman in the Window, 1944

  25. To Have and Have Not, 1944

  26. Murder, My Sweet, 1944

  27. Double Indemnity, 1944

  28. Laura, 1944

  29. Spellbound, 1945

  30. And Then There Were None, 1945

  31. The Blue Dahlia, 1946

  32. Notorious, 1946

  33. The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946

  34. The Big Sleep, 1946

  35. The Killers, 1946

  36. Crossfire, 1947

  37. Kiss of Death, 1947

  38. Out of the Past, 1947

  39. The Fallen Idol, 1948

  40. Key Largo, 1948

  41. Criss Cross, 1949

  42. White Heat, 1949

  43. The Third Man, 1949

  44. In a Lonely Place, 1950

  45. The Asphalt Jungle, 1950

  46. D.O.A., 1950

  47. Sunset Boulevard, 1950

  48. Strangers on a Train, 1951

  49. Detective Story, 1951

  50. The Big Heat, 1953

  51. Rear Window, 1954

  52. Kiss Me Deadly, 1955

  53. The Night of the Hunter, 1955

  54. The Killing, 1956

  55. The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1956

  56. Witness for the Prosecution, 1957

  57. Vertigo, 1958

  58. Touch of Evil, 1958

  59. Anatomy of a Murder, 1959

  60. North by Northwest, 1959

  61. Psycho, 1960

  62. To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962

  63. The Manchurian Candidate, 1962

  64. Charade, 1963

  65. A Shot in the Dark, 1964

  66. Topkapi, 1964

  67. Goldfinger, 1964

  68. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1965

  69. The Ipcress File, 1965

  70. Harper, 1966

  71. In Cold Blood, 1967

  72. In the Heat of the Night, 1967

  73. Bonnie and Clyde, 1967

  74. Bullitt, 1968

  75. Dirty Harry, 1971

  76. The French Connection, 1971

  77. Sleuth, 1972

  78. The Godfather, 1972

  79. Mean Streets, 1973

  80. The Day of the Jackal, 1973

  81. The Sting, 1973

  82. Murder on the Orient Express, 1974

  83. The Conversation, 1974

  84. The Godfather Part II, 1974

  85. Chinatown, 1974

  86. Taxi Driver, 1976

  87. Body Heat, 1981

  88. Blade Runner, 1982

  89. Fatal Attraction, 1987

  90. The Untouchables, 1987

  91. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, 1988

  92. The Grifters, 1990

  93. GoodFellas, 1990

  94. Silence of the Lambs, 1991

  95. Reservoir Dogs, 1992

  96. In the Line of Fire, 1993

  97. The Fugitive, 1993

  98. The Last Seduction, 1994

  99. The Usual Suspects, 1995

  100. Fargo, 1996

  101. L.A. Confidential, 1997

My Monthly Expenses for February 2026

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Here are my expenses for February 2026. As always, I may update it as I find more things I haven’t recorded. Check out the January 2026 expenses post here.

Apparel

  • pajama pants and school musical t-shirt: $114.87

Charity

  • $1,010

Education

  • housing: $1,177.49

  • tuition: $26,119.00

Energy

  • gasoline: $146.50

  • propane: $1,047.27

Food

  • coffee beans: $333.89

  • eating out: $73.50

  • groceries: $2,104.69

Gifts

  • Valentine’s Day: $119.88

  • to me from me: $856.45

Healthcare

  • psychologist: $280

Household

  • light bulb and floor mat: $66.51

Services

  • car and house cleaning: $370.80

  • credit card annual fee (Chase): $795.00

  • annual online storage (Google) : $21.59

  • haircuts: $63.00

  • lawn mowing (late bill from lawn boy): $388.80

  • movie recommendations (John): $1.99

  • music service (Spotify): $21.99 (formerly $19.99)

  • parking (on street): $3.75

  • printer ink subscription (HP): $8.63

  • water (town): $82.01

Trading-related

  • book, consulting, data, software: $295.48

Utilities

  • cellphone: $83.36 (formerly $74.29)

  • electricity: $265.40

  • internet: $120 (formerly $110)

Movies Watched in February 2026

Added on by C. Maoxian.

I now think the goal of watching 60 movies a month is a little crazy so I’m dropping it to a more manageable 50 a month. Check out the January 2026 list here.

Here is what I watched in February, listed alphabetically:

  1. Alien, 1979

  2. All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930

  3. Bonjour Tristesse, 2024

  4. Charade, 1963

  5. Cries and Whispers, 1972

  6. Diary of a Chambermaid, 1946

  7. Elevator to the Gallows, 1958

  8. Fanny and Alexander, 1982

  9. Fiend Without a Face, 1958

  10. Fitzcarraldo, 1982

  11. Forbidden Games, 1952

  12. Foreign Correspondent, 1940

  13. Germany Year Zero, 1948

  14. Ghostbusters, 1984

  15. Green for Danger, 1946

  16. Heaven Can Wait, 1940

  17. I Know Where I'm Going, 1945

  18. Japon, 2002

  19. Journey to Italy, 1954

  20. Kiss Me Deadly, 1955

  21. La piscine, 1969

  22. La ronde, 1950

  23. Last Holiday, 1950

  24. Last Year at Marienbad, 1961

  25. L'avventura, 1960

  26. Le corbeau, 1943

  27. Le jour se leve, 1939

  28. Mad Max, 1979

  29. Make Way for Tomorrow, 1937

  30. Miss Julie, 1951

  31. My Man Godfrey, 1936

  32. Pickpocket, 1959

  33. Red River, 1948

  34. Sawdust and Tinsel, 1953

  35. Scarface, 1932

  36. Secret Honor, 1984

  37. She's Gotta Have It, 1986

  38. Shoot the Piano Player, 1960

  39. Stolen Kisses, 1968

  40. The Browning Version, 1951

  41. The Innocents, 1961

  42. The Lovers, 1958

  43. The Most Dangerous Game, 1932

  44. The Virgin Spring, 1960

  45. Tootsie, 1982

  46. Touchez pas au grisbi, 1954

  47. Trouble in Paradise, 1932

  48. Two or Three Things I Know About Her, 1967

  49. Videodrome, 1983

  50. Viridiana, 1961

  51. White Mane, 1952

  52. Youth of the Beast, 1963

The movies that I consider must-see among these are listed below:

  1. Alien, 1979

  2. Charade, 1963

  3. Germany Year Zero, 1948

  4. La ronde, 1950

  5. Sawdust and Tinsel, 1953

  6. The Lovers, 1958

I’m still on the fence about Cries and Whispers (1972) and Last Holiday (1950).

Maoxian's One a Day Playlist for February 2026

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Here’s the wildly anticipated February playlist. The songs are sorted chronologically, latest to earliest. If you don’t like a song, skip to the next. Don’t forget to check out January’s playlist.

  • Kendra Morris, In My House

  • Jeanines, To Fail

  • Warhaus (feat. Sylvie Kreusch), Popcorn

  • Joe Yorke, Man

  • Gabi Hartmann, Maladie d'amour

  • Gabriels, Blame

  • Drugdealer (feat. Kate Bollinger), Pictures of You

  • Celeste, Love is Back

  • Ian Pooley, Venasque

  • Suzanne Vega, Caramel

  • Cesaria Evora, Sodade

  • Tom Tom Club, Genius of Love

  • Waylon Jennings, Amanda

  • George McCrae, Rock Your Baby

  • Phil Upchurch, Sitar Soul

  • Donny Hathaway, Love, Love, Love

  • Charlie Rich, Behind Closed Doors

  • The Beginning of the End, Funky Nassau, Pt. 1

  • Shuggie Otis, The Hawks

  • Roberta Flack, Do What You Gotta Do

  • Elton John, Your Song

  • Bobby Womack, California Dreamin'

  • The Youngbloods, All Over the World (La-La)

  • Jacqueline Taieb, Le Coeur au bout des doigts

  • Percy Sledge, When a Man Loves a Woman

  • Buffalo Springfield, For What It's Worth

  • Irma Thomas, Anyone Who Knows What Love Is

  • Ricky Nelson, Travelin' Man