That’s the day you know you’ve finally made it to investorhood. Not that money ever really becomes unspendable, literally. However, money, as often viewed, is an output of some function. It is the end result, the hoped for turnout of some function or action. It’s something you end up wanting to spend. The remarkable day [...]
I will start, nobly, with a defense. Why should I defend myself? Simply. Because most sensible people will take offense to what I am about to say. In other words, by saying what I have on my mind, and have had on my mind since I started this project, people will invent one idea in [...]
During these dismal dreary days when the stock market recedes some from a recent crest and people everywhere slosh their feet around and put hands in pockets and take them back out and fidget while they stare at the floor, some of us go shopping. Some see sun where others see rain.
It was with this [...]
I have always been interested in the long term implications of short term modifications to the inputs into exponential growth formulas. To examine some examples of these implications, I have made several models that are graphed to illustrate the solid conclusion that if at all possible, you should never pay yourself. At least not too [...]
If patience were a substance of which I could somehow hoard, I would selfishly acquire, at almost any cost, as much as I possibly could. The kind of take no prisoners kind of free for all kind of hoarding. The kind of ransack rob at gunpoint violent kind of sacking we could only imagine should [...]
While I’m not about to instruct you to maneuver your way miraculously throughout your office in evasion of agents Smith, Jones and Brown, I am going to elaborate on how to have a more sober view of that with which we have our daily dance. Almost everywhere where I read about the stock market, I [...]
The fall, my friends, is now upon us. Even though sometimes, some of us, all throughout the winter months, yearn for those sunny days that summer brings; those same some of us, now shine smiles to the earth at the doorstep of winter. The changing of the seasons is one of the most refreshing things [...]
Wow, the Internet really is full of a lot of junk. Like, big wow. My original intent was to find some good articles, some arguing for, some against, a rate-cut by the federal reserve, so I could use them to illustrate the opposing views. The many dozens of articles I have read almost entirely consist [...]
When remarking about this blog, elsewhere on the Internet, I often say that this is the thinking man’s portal to the world of investment. That summary indicates something important about what it is I am trying to do, namely, to address what I think is a neglected sphere of insight regarding the world of investment. [...]
I want to clarify a distinction. Hoping a stock will go up is speculation. Knowing a stock will go up is smart investing. Speculation is gambling. When I read other blogs and articles I often read about the sensation felt while stock trading—something like, “that felt good, almost like gambling.” That sensation is our encounter [...]