Moomin Valley

There is lots of talk about equities being in a bubble and that a stock-market crash is coming given that unemployment in the US is edging u...

  The Reserve Bank of Australia Building Same as last year , I just fixed my margin loan rate for the next financial year. The variable ra...

When you get your notice of assessment from the Australian Taxation Office when they have processed your tax return, they send you statement...

  I didn't notice when the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the 2019-20 data on Australian household income and wealth distribut...

I've started another long-term macro trade by buying a treasury note futures spread . The spread is short one ten year treasury note ...

Because recently Bitcoin rallied strongly over weekends, I decided to close any Bitcoin futures short position at the end of trading on Frid...

The latest survey results have been released by ABS. To be in the top 1% in Australia you need to have a household net worth of about AUD...

Here in Australia, employers nowadays seem to be very concerned about people not taking their annual leave entitlements. If your balance ...

A couple of days ago I posted a list o f all 12 of Labor's proposed tax increases. How likely is it that these will actually be enacted?...

My brother asked me what my forecast for the stock market was. Here is what I wrote to him: "Well, I’ve been surprised how weak it ha...

After a couple of hours of coding and debugging I got the first little bit of the model decision tree to work and spit out buy and sell d...

The Australian government has lowered the rate of corporation tax on small businesses and planned to lower the rate on larger businesses t...

Every couple of years the Australian Bureau of Statistics surveys the distribution of household wealth in Australia. The most recent data is...

There are lots of types of trading. Some of the important strategies are the following: 1. Market-making: A market maker profits from the ...

Interesting simulations of safe withdrawal rates over longer time horizons by ERN . The lowest withdrawal rate simulated is 3% p.a. Ed Thor...

The Australian Dollar tends to be high relative to the American Dollar during economic booms and low during economic crises. The recent lo...

Changes to superannuation are a perennial topic . If the government does this - lower the threshold for the 30% super contributions tax to ...

Bigchrisb commented on my recent post that we could save money by renting our new house out rather than going to live in it immediately. Th...

I delivered the 5% deposit check for the house to the lawyer this morning and she expects the deal will be locked in today or Monday. Then w...

According to this nominal income per capita in Western Australia is double that in the US and in the ACT double that in the UK. This shows t...