Personal Finance
How to run a backtest
It has been a month or two since I got back the “build and test trading strategies” bug. A bug that my very first, real gig gave me. Thinking about that job now, it was pretty absurd. It was a Read more…
Personal Finance
Invest in Yourself: the Health edition
If I was going to live forever, I would be set. Financially speaking. I watched too many movies and series to know that being immortal provides more issues than joys. Anyway, the concept should be easy to grasp, within the Read more…
Personal Finance
The Best Hedge against Inflation
I probably wrote too many posts about inflation, recently. Writing another one was definitely not my intention; then, yesterday I went running and listened to the latest podcast episode of The Compound and Friends, where Nick Maggiulli echoed a concept Read more…
Portfolio construction
Model Portfolio
The typical dose of daily financial news is something like “Stock XYZ did this today”; if we are lucky, is something more general like “Stocks went up/down” or, more likely these days, “Bonds did this and that”. For the average Read more…
Personal Finance
The perks of living in a big city
Last week we had our last ‘family of three’ trip and went to visit a friend in Lisbon. The short, five-day holiday was great, with the added kicker that while we were sunbathing on the beach it was snowing in Read more…
Personal Finance
Structured Products
It was ‘convexity week’ on TILS. After this tweet, a lengthy and insightful debate started on what convexity means. At the same time, PortfolioCharts posted a link to this Italian blog where the author explains…convexity (there is an English version Read more…
Portfolio construction
Tactical Asset Allocation
Last week, the @WifeyAlpha account appeared on my timeline: for once, Twitter algo did the right thing. Not only did Twitter put the account in front of me, it chose one of the best Tweet I read in a long Read more…
Personal Finance
Bear Market Trading: an update
In my previous post on how to trade during a bear market, I used Tencent as a prime example. The stock actually bottomed the day after I published the post and since has rebounded more than 30%. The rebound was Read more…
Personal Finance
How to Trade in a Bear Market
During my non-professional trading career, I studied and experimented with various strategies. For a period (which might include present days), I had my go at picking value stocks. In pursuit of value, I use to buy stocks that were down Read more…
Personal Finance
Illiquid Alternative Investments
Last week I read a well-done research piece. It is about illiquid alternative investments, a topic that I find really interesting (I wrote about alternatives here and here). The underlying idea is to look for investments that added to a Read more…