Kimber wrote an interesting post regarding diversification. BTW Kimber, no idea where you got the idea that women can't trade. It has me thinking, do you diversify or do you become delta neutral? For those wondering, delta is one of the Greek letters in option trading, and it implies risk...
Read More →The iPhone is stirred up controversy and there are people on both sides of the fence. The iPhone nags at me as being a lesson in how you can fool people by marketing. Now I found the reason why I had this nagging doubt. Nokia is about to launch the N95 which would be an iPod competitor. Let me line...
Read More →Steve Jobs held a keynote and announced the iPhone. One site even did a quick look and feel of the phone. Apple surged by 8% and others like Nokia and RIMM dropped. Though RIMM dropped more than Nokia. What I think: Sell Apple at its peak (it should climb a bit more) and buy on the weakness of the...
Read More →I want to apologize for the porn spam that has taken over our forums. I just finished clearing out all the bad posts I could. It took me over one and a half hours. Painful stuff. And the worst thing is that most of the links (or at least the few I checked) didn't even take you to porn. False...
Read More →Pictures can speak louder than words. So here is a shot of the performance of my E\Trade account. [](/images/2006performance.png "click for a larger image") Yikes. First one question. Is is possible to apply technical analysis to a chart of your performance? If so, I would be short Jason Coleman...
Read More →I just wanted to thank all of you readers for making IG an interesting place for discussions and arguments and rants about my favorite topics. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas, Invest in peace...
Read More →Based on seven months of investment our ROI is 26% as that is when I jumped in this year. I have to say that I am very happy about this. This ROI is based on funds, stocks, and bonds throughout Europe, and the America's. As of today my positions are as follows: - 66.8% Cash - 16.8% Bonds - 16.3%...
Read More →A while back somebody asked me what I thought of Google stock. My thoughts, then as now is; good company, but I would not trade their stock. Today I read something in Business Week that confirms why I am not a fan of Google stock. The article talked about how employees will be able to sell their...
Read More →In reply to my automated trading blog entry I have had people send me emails asking what about this or that toolkit? This made me think that I should be doing some reviewing of products and toolkits. Therefore if anybody wants to send me your toolkit WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS I will do a feature by...
Read More →When people talk about investments, they tend to leave out a missing value that everyone ignores when figuring out their investment strategy. That little tidbit of information would be the massive elephant in the room called: risk. I've created a rough draft table giving values between .1 and 1.0...
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