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
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 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 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
General Comment On top of my birthday, event that probably did not affect markets around the globe, April saw the continuation of the good momentum that we saw since Trump elections. Markets have been generally positive, there is a start of a re-trace in the REIT sector in the US (interest rates hikes are finally kicking… Read More April 2017 Update
Starting this October I have decided to group the updates in one single post, makes things a bit harder to read, but lots easier for me to manage:) General Comments I think that Mr.Market started some sort of pullback waiting for the US elections to be over and considering aquite probable interest rate hike in December.… Read More October 2016 Update
One of the fellow bloggers that I admire a lot (DIY UK) asked me in a recent post if I could provide a sort of “guide” to options… As I am a total newbie I will not venture into the complex systems that I have been studying over the past few months, but I’ll try… Read More Options for Dummies
As I am still at the beginning of my options trading career I will keep the Options posts less systematic than they should be, there is still a lot to learn and much to be considered before I can say that I got my hang on things. Still another month has passed and I am… Read More Options Trades Roundup
Sell in May and go away, they used to say. Well May has been a month of two faces, bad start and great comeback at the end, volatility is lower than the beginning of the year and everyone seems to be awaiting for the 23rd of June when Brexit will be decided and also Yellen… Read More May 2016 Update
