Thanks to Bankeronwheels, last week I read this post from Early Retirement Now on trading options. A quick self-reflection digression. I know the existence of ERN because Mr.Rip once told me about it. I had a peek at the blog and immediately my brain rejected it because of “bad layout Read more…
Every video/post about dividend investing should start with a big, clear disclaimer that says “This investment strategy is suboptimal; it might help you behaviourally but you are going to pay for the privilege”. Like those ads against piracy before a movie or the banners on cigarette packs. Imaging investing using Read more…
TLDR: if you ask me, most did When I started this blog four years ago, I planned to dedicate ample space to p2p lending. I had been experimenting with investments in that space for three years and, at that time, I was starting to experience the first, unfortunate, negative surprises. Read more…
I found this blog one year ago thanks to Nick Maggiulli; I am quite fond of it because it provided me the solution to my quest for leverage: Interactive Broker. I spent some years looking for a bank that would accept to give me leverage holding my stock portfolio as Read more…
And for a period of time, it certainly seemed so. I was reading bloggers (yeah, not investors) making yearly returns of 11%, 12%, even more than that. I was asking myself why I was only cautiously deploying capital into p2p while people out there were making a killing. Then scams Read more…
Josh Wolfe of Lux Capital frequently uses the concept of directional arrows of progress, meaning that technologies are directionally predictable; this concept might be extended to other fields: for example, trading costs are an arrow, their direction was downward and RobinHood just accelerated this development by some years bringing costs Read more…
I started investing in DoFinance in mid 2017 and I wrote a review in Nov 2019, so like 20 years ago. The VID was not kind to their business model. In a traditional p2p platform, an investor lend money to a borrower and gets their funds when the borrower pays Read more…
My personal investment trifecta: passive income, uncorrelated to stock market, good topic at a party (once we will be able to go to one). A music royalties investment company, Hipgnosis Songs is the brainchild of Merck Mercuradis, former manager of Elton John, Guns N’ Roses and Morrissey; it was founded on Read more…
This week I was reading a blogger report that went like: I invested in Crowdestor because after the default of Kuetzal and Envestio this will be my high risk/high reward platform I do not want to talk about specific platforms here (even if you already know what I think about Read more…
Dan Rasmussen is the founder and portfolio manager of Verdad, a firm that invest in leveraged small value stocks in the public markets; he is a super smart dude and I tend to read / listen when I am lucky enough to find anything about him. Unfortunately broke chaps like Read more…