General Comment April is always a rather special month for me. First and foremost it’s the month of my birthday. But even more important than my birthday it happens to ne my wife’s birthday too (if you are married or with some “significant one at your side” you know what I mean!). Financially speaking April… Read More April 2019
General Comment What did March bring? Lots of spring, and nothing more than that really. Markets have been tame and behaved more than well growing constantly, allowing all specialised press and less specialised commentators to resume the “all time high”, “broke all previous records” mantra that we get in these cases. These are the good… Read More March 2019
General Comment Pretty much like January, February was a rather calm month, a decent month of growth for financial markets all around the spectrum. If you follow this blog you’ll know that my view on 2019 is a neutral/negative one, and this is the main reason why I have decided to adapt my option strategy… Read More February 2019
General Comment 2019 has kicked off with a moderate positive feeling to it, the draughts of December that we experienced in the stock market made way to a rather quick recovery, all across the board. I guess that January did not hide any special surprise for us, no dramatic news, no Brexit decisions, no China… Read More January 2019
So 2018 has gone, the Long Haul Portfolio turned 4, nothing short than a toddler! Let’s start dishing out some numbers and facts: OPTIONS I started off in January with a prospected change in the way I was going to trade Options. Instead of insisting with very aggressive PUT trades, I switched to a long… Read More 2018 – “Year Finale”
General Comment Who would have thought? It turns out that many people actually predicted the financial markets drama that we witnessed in December. To me it’s all BS, or at least 80% is BS. Reading blogs and news over the past 6 months there was not a single writer who did not mentioned an impending… Read More December 2018
General Comment November has gone by, it retrospect it seems that this month was much more eventful than October when markets started tumbling. The reality is that in general terms world financial markets started to recover some of the losses from October. The lingering feeling that I get from the financial community, newspapers and more… Read More November 2018 Update
General Comment Well, well… If we wanted some action to shake the financial world in October we might have just got that! At the time of writing we are still in the middle of a correction, technically speaking. Second time that it happens this year, the first was right at the beginning in February/March, and… Read More October 2018 Update
General Comment Here we are, September has gone by, and yet another update of the LH Portfolio. University started in full swing, that means that I had to start teaching once more. The job is quite nice I like the interaction with students and the subjects that I am doing, but as this is the… Read More September 2018 Update
General Comment August has been a rather important month for me, it marked my return to the place that I consider a second home, Japan. It was for work, as I was taking a group of people on a tour that I have designed, organised and eventually conducted there. But even if the occasion was… Read More August 2018 Update
