General Comment I have spent most of July working on a new course that I will start in September. Teaching is something that has been in my family since I was born as both my parents were professors, but it is not until I started doing it constantly that I can see how hard it… Read More July 2018 Update
General Comment This June we had an anticipated round of holidays, thanks to my wife getting her break this month against the more usual “July/August” period. There are several great points of going to holidays in June. First of all there are less people around, prices are a bit more decent, less traffic and more… Read More June 2018 Update
General Comment Sell in May and go away. I didn’t. I actually bought! Yes May was a bit hectic, the LH Portfolio continued the recovery started in April but stopped around mid May when the markets took another nosedive. This affected the LH Portfolio, as it seems that since the beginning of the year the… Read More May 2018 Update
General Comment One more spin of the wheel! Yes, my birthday came and reminded me that “tempus fugit” (Latin for: time flies), it seems yesterday since I was living in England or Japan, and instead 20 years have passed already… Bloody Hell! ANYHOW… Amarcord mode “off”, what happened in April in the financial markets and… Read More April 2018 Update
I did mention that I was working on a “side project”, didn’t I? Mydividend.eu is “yet” another site about dividends and DGI investing. With a peculiarity: It’s in Italian for Italian investors. Unfortunately in Italy there aren’t many resources for local investors who are interested in DGI strategies, first of all because the vast majority… Read More Mydividend.eu
General Comment March was an interesting month for the markets, as the weakness that we started seeing in February continued along with some extra volatility effectively worsening the pullback that we were already living in February. As I mentioned in the previous update it seems that investors are looking at excuses to sell, while a… Read More March 2018 Update
General Comment The shorter month of the year brought the first “serious” market correction in recent history, this event broke the spell of “never-ending growth” that seemed to have caught a lot of investors. Recent performance was so good that a lot more people got attracted by stock investments of late, this is one of… Read More February 2018 Update
General Comment First month of the year is already gone!! It really seemed like it flew past me at incredible speed. Probably it was the fact that I have recently started working as a Professor and all the excitement, anxiety, hopes and all sorts of other emotions that went into this new venture made time… Read More January 2018 Update
General Comment I will not comment Year End results in this post, this stays a monthly update just like any other update. December kept positive momentum, there was a definite slowdown in market growth, but there is still positive numbers out there and record smashing activities all around the place. Unlike last december, when I… Read More December 2017 Update
I mentioned in a previous post that I was going to change the way I post reports of numbers and results from my investments, after quite some work with google sheets I managed to get a new version rolling, which I am going to launch officially with this post. Dividends and Options The new section… Read More Reporting
