Monthly Archives: April 2008

What I’m up to with my A. & A. M. M. M. Buy-Write

By Jeffrey McLarty | Published: April 30, 2008
Algorithmic & Actively Managed Market-Making Buy-Write is what I call the strategy and it’s my latest way I’m going to harvest money from the capital markets without having to worry too much. It’s more like an experiment in liquidity. My intentions are to test out my hypothesis, prove it works, then open up [...]
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Interesting Dynamic Mortgage Map

By Jeffrey McLarty | Published: April 29, 2008
Thanks, Paul, http://www.newyorkfed.org/mortgagemaps/
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Tomorrow, I get a Bag of Money

By Jeffrey McLarty | Published: April 29, 2008
…well…it might take a couple days to clear, but the point is – A much higher fraction of my net worth is liquid and approximately only 20% invested. Do I have plans for the loot? You bet. I’m going to load up the boat on *HXU.TO. depending on the charts, market timing may vary. Enough to [...]
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Canadian Banks Sued for Being Flexible: Now Borrower Gets Screwed

By Jeffrey McLarty | Published: April 28, 2008
According to an informed mortgage department rep, at PC Financial, all 5 major banks were sued almost two years ago for accepting “pre-payment” payments not on the discrete mortgage re-balancing dates, as per the standardized contract.  Because of that lawsuit, two years ago, I lost $400, today.  Read on to not let it happen to [...]
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Tycoonville & The Gameplan

By Jeffrey McLarty | Published: April 26, 2008
Tycooonville – That’s where I’m headed.  It’s a place where high degrees of wit, extreme capitalistic tendencies, uber conservatism, and intelligent policy both fiscal and monetary are expected, no - demanded.  In Tycoonville, absolute gains are expected, present value is assumed, and markets are effecient as they all obey causality. To get there, you’ll need hard work, a [...]
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Cashflows: I want a Tool, People Should Learn…Eureka?

By Jeffrey McLarty | Published: April 23, 2008
I want a tool where I can quickly look at, show, and share cash flows, graphically.  I want to be able to manipulate them, create annuities, both growing, shrinking, positive and negative, show better than expected, worse than expected, add risk and possibility of outliers events, etc. etc. I think if North Americans better understood [...]
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Reflections, Impact & Thanks: 4 Years of Student Housing

By Jeffrey McLarty | Published: April 19, 2008
I owe some thanks, and shout-outs, to the people closest to me that helped me over the last 5 years.   My sister, was probably the most priceless asset to have - she was essentially risk free income, who helped me out in many intangible and unquantifiable ways through-out the entire last 4 years.  She also brought her friends as [...]
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I’ll Stay Optimistic, Because, I Didn’t Get Screwed

By Jeffrey McLarty | Published: April 12, 2008
Well, the deal last week fell through.  The bank ended up needing more time, so we extended the deal until Friday at 3pm.  It fell through at 8:30 AM on Thursday, in the form of an e-mail from the wannabe buyers; ”The bank was going to force us to sign an affidavid (I can’t spell), that no students would [...]
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Having Faith in People, Until I get screwed

By Jeffrey McLarty | Published: April 9, 2008
I’m in the middle of a Real-Estate deal, the conditions get waived tonight by 9pm.  Part of the deal, had to be verbal – I chose to allow it.  I could get screwed, but I wanted the rest of terms of the deal. The buyers didn’t want my tenants, and asked for “vacant possession”, because they [...]
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Down with the Telemarketers

By Jeffrey McLarty | Published: April 8, 2008
It can’t be an efficient business model.  Cold calling people must suck.  Trying to sell insurance, exercise equipment, internet service, long distance…blah blah blah….awful. Here’s the scary thing -  they keep doing it.  Therefore, some people must actually bite. I’ve had an idea on how to bring them down – if we all banned together, we could [...]
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