Moomin Valley

Here is the latest from Hussmann on the stockmarket. He seems to be one of the smarter guys around with regard to market analysis. Basicall...

This is the first time I have provided a snapshot of the allocation spreadsheet I use to give myself a picture of my portfolio and calculate...

One story about the world economy and state of the financial markets and another with the latest edition of the Big Mac Index . Seems to me...

Today stock markets are rising around the world. The decline to this point hasn't received much attention outside the financial media. S...

Today was another volatile day in the financial markets. Gold fell - obviously the wave 2 correction I disucssed yesterday is not over but w...

Like the US stockmarket today, Asian stockmarkets opened higher but have reversed at this point after Hong Kong opened at 10pm EDT. Though...

First the stockmarket was up strongly and then towards the close it slid heavily - a slide that continued after the official close. This was...

The slide in global stockmarkets continued today (and tonight in Asia). Not getting a lot of attention yet in the mainstream media (in the U...

I just entered the NetWorthIQ Top Ten List . Cool :) Probably it's because I am the top of the most active user list . Just got back fro...

More good tax news for investors on this side of the Pacific today. Interesting factoid in the article is that only 23% of people in the $5...

Nothing unexpected for me in the announcement. After the announcement at 2:15pm, the dollar fell, bonds rose, gold rose, oil rose, and non-r...

In the Federal Budget announced last night, treasurer Peter Costello, announced among other things a simplification of the superannuation sy...

The S&P 500 and Dow Industrials rallied strongly on Friday (punching through the 34 day Bollinger Bands indicator I like to use). Thi...

One thing that puzzles me after my explorations in NetWorthIQ and PFBlog space is the obsession with retirement accounts. Many people write ...

I've been reading plenty of these PF blogs as well as creating my own since discovering the NetWorthIQ website . It is very interesting ...

Despite the ravings of many goldbugs and other conspiracy theorists the Fed is not printing money. The ">chart of the M1 money supp...

After a bit of a run around I bought a new firewire cable and got into the portable hard drive with my most uptodate accounts on it. Of cour...

Here is Bill Gross' latest commentary. The last days and weeks have seen rapid movements in exchange rates, interest rates, stock price...

John Mauldin 's latest weekly letter is all about the weakening US Dollar and the Federal Reserve. Included is this great ">vide...

Looks like I made about a 5% investment return for April. Most of the move was due to the strong rally in the Australian Dollar. The core in...

Interesting article that looks at whether the rising price of gold is a signal of future inflation. Especially interesting is the compariso...

One of the things that maybe gives me some trading edge is a technical analysis indicator I developed myself. It is very different to tradit...

Great article by Mark Hulbert on the "Sell in May and Go Away" saying. It is true that stocks perform worse in the summer and bet...

Article on MoneyCentral introducing some alternative investment ideas for beginners. Also, Yahoo has an article on finding the best fund m...

These guys' Q1 report - highlighted in John Mauldin's latest letter - has an identical viewpoint to my own on inflation, bonds etc...

I was curious what fraction of my net worth accumulation had come from saving and how much from investment profits. I created this chart, wh...

This Clustermaps application is so amazing! Every day I check the new red spots appear on the map. The latest entrants are for Bangkok, som...

There have been a couple of recent economic studies published that argue that there is no housing bubble. One paper by Himmelberg et al. an...

There has been some discussion on NetWorthIQ about what fraction of the US and world population are millionaires. It is surprisingly hard t...

Today I exceeded $300,000 in net worth for the first time. This is based on an update of all values yesterday and the change in exchange rat...

Today I got my tax assessment letter from the IRS. Now I know why the refund they paid me was $1250.00 less than I expected. I forgot to fi...

Looks like Croesus Mining will survive though I have no idea what the shares will trade at on 28 April when the suspension ends. One reason...

Great article from Bill Gross explaining why the bear market in bonds (equals rising long term bond rates) should be almost over. It's ...

Got the letter today. 1.5%. Inflation is 3.6% p.a. currently. The pool for all salary increases was 2.5%. The rest of the letter went on abo...

Received my refund and it is more than $1200 less than expected :( Will have to wait to get a statement to see why there is such a large dis...

Crazy action at the end of the trading day and after hours as GOOG entered the S&P 500 Index and Google's 5.3 million secondary shar...

I think the probability that the downphase of the four year cycle is now underway is getting higher. Been looking over various of the usual...

This site is cool. LInks to almost 400 personal finance blogs and data on how many visits they have received and how many clicks have been ...

I bought some gold for the first time ever today (in my Roth IRA). This is through the Exchange Traded Fund GLD . Gold broke out of the trad...

Article on millionaire households. Not surprisingly Los Angeles County is #1 as it is the most populous county in the country (10 million p...

Today is the day of the Federal Reserve statement - at 2:15pm - and it will be Ben Bernanke's first... The buzz on Silicon Investor and...

Yesterday I decided to cancel a trip to speak at a university in the southern US. They told me that as I wasn't a US citizen (but am an ...

Coverage of the four year stock cycle on CNN Money.

Stealthbucks commented that he was curious that so many personal finance bloggers seem really excited about savings accounts from Emigrant ...

Looks like I just went over $A400,000 in net worth... Three hundred thousand US Dollars remains elusive though due to the weakness in the Au...

Good article by David Bach on credit scores. I don't like a lot of what this guy writes, particularly on housing, but seems there is a ...

Most people probably don't analyse their investment performance as much as I do. My motives are to find what works and see whether I can...

Some posters on NetWorthIQ have criticized my use of margin or said: "well it's not for me - good luck". Leverage through marg...

Yeah, I am getting bashed in the markets, giving up profits I made earlier this and last month, though as only a fraction of my net worth is...

Just was checking out the McClellan Oscillator and Summation as I do most days. One of the most powerful tools for medium term trades of t...

Received the copy of Unexpected Returns by Ed Easterling I ordered from Amazon and started reading. The book looks at longer term cycles i...

Just bought some shares of "Infrastructure Yield Securities" (IYS.AX). This is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange but is actu...

So why the names Moomin Valley and moominoid? The moomins are characters in the books (and other spin-offs) created by the Finnish (but Swe...

I am reading Warren Buffett's annual letter and for a change I like what I see. I also checked the chart of Berkshire stock and maybe n...

The table shows my income, expenditure, and saving for February. "Other income" includes salary and this month, for example, my ex...

Just updating my spreadsheets ready for March which includes reporting on performance etc. I keep track of the two best known parameters in ...

In trade in Google stock. I was long and added shares before the big run up and then was short when it started to fall. Couple of missteps s...

Calculated my investment return in February: a measly 0.24%. But the MSCI World Index (Gross including before tax reinvested dividends - wh...

Today the stockmarket has been very volatile and in particular GOOG and the rest of the internet sector. I went into the day short GOOG and ...

Today I did a couple more GOOG trades. Buying 80 GOOG, selling 100, shorting 80 and then buying back 50. So I ended the day short 30 GOOG. T...

8:30pm Decided to do my tax returns today... I do them myself and use Excel to keep records and calculate. This year I added to my spreadshe...

Some times I do a daytrade for fun. Today I traded Google. Bought 70 shares alongside the 30 I already had and then at the end of the day I ...

This article shows just how unusual most of the posters on NetWorthIQ who have multiple entries are: http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/23/pf/cons...

The net worth goals might seem rather high and they do depend on everything going right. The goal for this year is based on: Current savings...

Difficult trading environment at the moment. My trading positions are pretty much hedged between long and short at this point. Last night to...

A great blog on the world markets, investment strategy, and China, from one of my old friends at Silicon Investor: http://worldmarket.blogsp...

This chart shows my net worth in the 12 years or so before NetWorthIQ's accounting starts. Starts with a period as a grad student and po...

This is my blog - I just got it so I can answer other blogs - I will probably occasionally post some personal finance stuff here to compleme...