Finance, Food, Fitness
I am tired of hearing that the stock market is the place to invest, long term it has returned X%, and X% is greater than anything else. Buy and hold is still the way to go with the latest market downturn.
If academics where financial geniuses, they wouldn’t be academics.
From 1871 to 2008, the average [...]
I have been reading a lot about underfunded pensions. This isn’t just a problem with GM and Chrysler, this is a problem with pretty much every pension fund in the US. If I wasn’t being force feed so much news on the topic, I wouldn’t give a shit, because I will never have [...]
Just in case you were wondering, I did not win the 28 million that I joked about investing in last night. That is what I get for not investing
I have been thinking about how to insure a portfolio and have been attacking the problem with options.
My thought process was that I wanted to risk no more than 10% loss from the price in January, and in January I would buy PUT options with a strike price 10% the current price, with an expiration [...]
I will be placing my first options trade Monday. Well, not my first, but my first with my new options only account where I will be regularly trading options.
I started out wanting to do naked puts, where you get paid to buy a stock if the stock price drops below a certain point. [...]
A thought crossed my mind, “How great would it have been to short Ford a go long on Toyota.” By betting Ford is going to go down, and Toyota is going to go up, what I am really doing is saying Ford is that Toyota is going to outperform Ford.
Lets say I thought of [...]
My last paycheck this year actually happened on the last day of the year, and since I actually had a day off, I decided to look at my electronic paystub and see the damage for the year.
After looking at my gross pay for the year, and my net pay, I have come to the conclusion [...]
I read a lot of financial news, and I have to wonder who these morons are who come up with these theories.
You know who buys the majority of Luxury goods? Is it the ultra rich? No, it is the normal Joes who are splurging on an up market product. Look around and [...]
I hope that quote was taken out of context. But Kiplinger’s published that quote and attributed it to Bob Veres of Inside Information newsletter. While it would be great if financial advisers actually provides such valuable insight that they should be held accountable if their advice ever under performed the market, in reality [...]
Ever since the straddle’s did not work out, I have been thinking about a covered call strategy, but I didn’t get a chance this weekend to model it out and see if it is a good idea or not.
In general, covered calls are a conservative strategy, where you sell an option for someone else to [...]
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