What a volatile week it was in the global equity markets. I round off this week with only one additional investment under my belt. I would have liked to purchased a few more that have gotten my interest over the last couple… Continue Reading
It was a very interesting day yesterday in the U.S. Equity markets. It was interesting but also incredibly frustrating… After heading home from a long day of work, I did my usual thing and went for a gym session and… Continue Reading
Some friendly sources have informed me that the news has been having a field day over China. The question we need to ask ourselves is whether the China bubble is starting to burst and what we are experiencing right now is… Continue Reading
Since my first investment back into the game last Wednesday, the U.S. equities decided after a month of stability to just tank, the S&P500 shed over 5% over two days (Thursday and Friday – I’ve got the best timing in… Continue Reading
This week’s rant is an update of the financially free series. I finally mustered up the courage and decisiveness to make my first business investment since the Centro debacle. On Wednesday I initiated a buy position in Intel (INTC) at a price… Continue Reading
I’m hitting the big leagues guys! I’m going on the World Wide Web! My rants will from now on be available on my blog that has just been freshly minted (still rough around the edges and will hopefully change over… Continue Reading
This may seem like a very silly question…the answer is blatantly obvious – course it matters!! This is especially true for small transaction sizes (this is how managed funds gain a slight edge) however this is where investing/trading in the… Continue Reading
I ran into a pretty cool website a couple of days ago – http://spinoffmonitor.com/. This site provides news on the latest spinoffs so I can set up a watch list of spinoffs to look at for potential opportunities. In trying… Continue Reading
So yesterday afternoon the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) released a statement that effectively removed the fixed exchange rate regime on the CNY. Previously the USDCNY exchange rate was only allowed to trade in a +/-2% band of an FX… Continue Reading
The last interesting concept I got out of Nassim’s book was related to opaque nature of history. From history we can learn from the mistakes and successes made in past…however have you ever considered the events that don’t occur in… Continue Reading