Do you like my click-bait attempt? You will hate me even more when you realise this post is basically relevant only to people living in the UK (ok…not exactly…every country in the world incentivise saving and investing via tax reductions in a way or another, there might be some food Read more
There are two categories of people in the world: the ones that love Packy McCormick and the ones that do not know Packy. Howard Marks (I think) said that good stock traders are optimist while good bond traders are pessimist. I happened to to be a bond trader as part Read more
(especially if you do not live in the US) Last week the biggest US tech names reported their Q2/21 results: Tesla, and to a lesser extent Netflix, starting point was low enough that an almost triple-digit growth is still in the realm of possibility but the other names on the Read more
The early days My relationship with the start-up world had some highs and lows. Ten years ago I was dating this girl that had some friends involved in Rocket Internet: in her eyes, it was the chance to join the Silicon Valley in Europe…for me, it was a bunch of Read more
I had to read and re-read the email three times. I then found some confirming tweets: IB is indeed removing the $10 monthly inactivity fee it was charging its poor (with less than $100k balance) clients. In 25 years of trading and countless platforms used, I can count on a Read more
or…The Italian Leather Sofa for the community. Commenting a recent post, Luca suggested me to have a look at The Everest Formula website and…why not! I wish there will be more interaction on this blog, if you post your questions, ideas, remarks in the comment section instead of sending me Read more
A quick peak into the future (while I wait for my boss to approve some trades and then I dash to the gym). If you are interested in factor investing, you probably know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What I mean is that calling something Value Read more
Most probably I had the trader bug since I was born. Do you have a memory about your early adolescence that you are not sure if it happened for real? Obviously this only works if you are Gen X like me or older. I was not 100% sure this was Read more
One year ago I signed my first mortgage in UK; in less than one year, I will have to renegotiate it. For everyone not living on the-perennial-rain island (no, not that one, the one on the right, the one with the Queen) this must sound like a shocker. 90% of Read more
I am quite bad with dates, as remembering the day something happened…not a date like going out with my wife, in that I am pretty good at that, just look at my wife! To be more precise I am bad regarding past dates, 75% of my daily job is planning Read more