Category Archives: Money

Strategy is Absolute

This post is for 4 people, who I’ve recently chatted with regarding investment strategies.  Hedge funds are the best representation of “ways to make money by trading stuff”.  If you trade anything, I mean any asset class, for yourself or others – you’re running a hedge fund.  I mean, in the broadest sense.  For those [...]
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Morningstar Over/Under Index

Here’s my all-time favorite indicator. There isn’t even 10 years of data, but we are in the middle of the I.T. revolution, so this indicator doesn’t need to go back longer. I don’t care if they are right or not, or the earnings don’t come true next year, this index measures the number [...]
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For Sale: Call Option on my Condo

This is the stuff I think about.  Do you own any asset at all, where the price fluctuates with a predictable volatility?  Consider the following. I will sell, the right, but not the obligation, to buy my 568 sq foot condo, in one of the most central places in Toronto, for $275K, in 3 years from [...]
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If I could pick only two stocks to hold for the next 5 years…

…and I wasn’t allowed to trade at all, it’d be TEX, and HEK. HEK is more risky, well actually really risky, but hence the upside. TEX, can’t figure it out, they just blew away the numbers tonight, I don’t know why the stock isn’t up 50% right now. Long HEK from $8.27 and $9.95. Long [...]
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First Investment Outlook: Let me count the ways…

That the pollution haze, alt. energy phase, banking craze, water ways, derivative maze, urbanization blaze, crop yields on maize and inflation daze…have given me too many ideas to throw money at, I just don’t know which ones are best. Pollution and energy are two big problems, combine that with urbanization and CVA is likely to prosper. [...]
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Predicting Prediction Markets to Succeed!

I was listening to an audio version of the economist, when I had to drop what I was doing when I heard them mention Prediction Markets. A quick google search pointed me to intrade.com. Very cool. People bid on contracts that expire at either 100 or 0.  It’s a market for a betting pool as [...]
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To Quote Bill Gross & Learning With Skin In the Game

I am an equity/derivatives guy – I think I always will be, but, I KNOW I need to expand my knowledge of how the bond market works, and the signals it gives off. I’ve been reading one of Bill Gross’s book, you know the manager of PIMPCO, “The Peter Lynch of Bonds” according to [...]
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Trends In Bandwidth (aka Sandvine’s Bull Pitch)

P2P file sharing still dominates bandwidth usage in North America, consuming 75% of the upload stream and 35.6% of the download stream. According to this short study/report on Trends in Broadband Traffic Demographics. This study is done by a company, I own shares in, Sandvine. They are basically trying to help ISPs, prioritize packets [...]
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Deal Stocks 101: Market Causality

RIMM announces tomorrow. It has become, a deal stock.  Everybody talks about it, everybody has traded it, everybody has a story about making huge bucks or losing some coin (mainly the shorts).  See, same applies to GOOG.  Remember when GOOG announced, everybody had ZERO expectations, people were buying puts, and selling calls, scared it was going to [...]
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Boosting Returns: Take The Bet, Short the Puts

Unless CCJ hits $55, or ENER hits $70, or CSIQ hits $45 (these are all >10% moves), and I take profits as planned on the July FSLR’s…all before tomorrow, and since I closed a 3 week trace on FCX…then I add 1.4% to my bottom line this month, or generated 5.7% on cash tied up…however [...]
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Finally Finding Value In Google Spreadsheets

Investors & traders can now use real-time (Ok, 20 minute delayed) data from google finance, in google spreadsheets. Maybe this is nothing new, but I just jumped on it last night, and played around. I added all the US tickers I have positions in to a spreadsheet, then also added either my own [...]
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18 Things New Investors Should Learn

I’m younger than most people into stocks, as such, there seems to be a demographic boom of sorts of my friends wondering about getting started. I have brainstormed, regarding 18 valuable concepts. Some are obvious, some are not. All seem simple, most are not. 1. Market Causality is Fickle Stocks anticipate good news, and bad news. [...]
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I invested in Tooth-Paste Today! Colgate that is…

Colgate baby. Growing world-wide middle class will likely enjoy tooth-paste, just as much as the rest of the world. I’m leveraged with a SWEET 2010 call spread. ~0.9% in time premium on an effective $65 call with capped gains at $80. 74% returns expected within 20 months. Check out my [...]
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