The starting point of my journey in personal finance and investing was trading. Trading was my first love. This is the reason why I only recently had a look at annuities; for a long time, I considered the instrument as Read more
I discovered @MacroAlf and his YouTube/podcast only recently. Sunday morning my daughter decided to wake me up at 6.30 am and since it was the first day in almost two months I did not have any NBA game to watch, Read more
Two weeks ago I wrote a post about the All Weather Portfolio. Since the beginning of 2022, there has been an extensive discussion about “static stock&bond allocations” because both assets suffered significant losses. We were promised uncorrelated returns and yet, Read more
This is a port-mortem about my investment in the crypto token $LUNA. The token came on my radar after I read The Generalist briefing about it. I started reading The Generalist just a few months prior, after their infamous trilogy Read more
I have been fascinated by Risk Parity since the day I read about it. Combining uncorrelated assets, where each contributes in the same way to the portfolio’s overall volatility, is the best way to approach the capital allocator problem, at Read more
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
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
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
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
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