Moomin Valley

It's been one year now since I started trying to trade the model - time for an assessment. I didn't trade much this month but did p...

First day back home a lot got done, culminating in booking our flights to Australia for mid-September. We got a very good price via a websit...

That will remain a secret (the bill was about $81) but there was no disagreement on that or how to split the bill :) Last night I met up wit...

I wanted to post a blogpost from Wall Street, but Starbucks was too busy. I am at least writing this one at the intersecton of Wall and Broa...

I'm back in New York (actually right now I'm in Jersey City which is a much cheaper place to stay but only two stops on the PATH tra...

I rarely post about the spending side of the equation but after spending yesterday working with Snork Maiden on move preparations I thought ...

I suddenly realized today that if my employment terminates on June 30th my H1B status does too. There is no grace period to leave the countr...

My negotiations with my university didn't last long. They didn't budge at all and so I'm not going to budge either. I plan to re...

Yesterday afternoon we drove back from Boston after dropping my brother off at the airport. I think for all of us the visit to Gloucester wa...

I'm in Massachusetts now travelling with Snork Maiden and my brother who is visiting for just over a week. His first time in America (an...

Snork Maiden has a savings account with TD BankNorth. Don't worry, she also has one with HSBC but keeps this one because her pay is paid...

Interesting evidence on why overnight trading and closing the trade within the first hour or so is a good strategy when using directional t...

Today we got the formal offer letter from the Australian position. It's OK - just need to push the start date off by about a month to 1 ...

Some reasons why we've decided to move to Australia: 1. So far it's the only good job offer that Snork Maiden has received. There ar...

New investment: 500 shares of Rick's Cabaret . Wallstrip umm "profiled" it and I checked out other blogs and the numbers and ...

We have pretty much decided to move to Australia though we still need to work out/negotiate all the details. I'll explain in another pos...

All figures are in US Dollars unless otherwise stated. This month saw weaker performance especially when compared to the market, but net wor...

The model had its first losing month in a long time. It ended down -0.87% on the month while NDX gained 3.24%. However, my trading accounts ...

When I get worried about something I tend to do some research on the issue to reassure myself that it's not a real problem. So in this s...

I envy people who seem to know what they want out of life. I'm confused. When I'm trading instead of focusing on my job and on acade...

Finally getting around to this. One advantage of moving to Australia will be simpler tax rules and forms though at higher income levels the ...

Is something some people think I do too much of. Too much thinking about possible outcomes can result in "analysis paralysis". How...

This chart is from Maoxian's blog . It just shows volume of the Shanghai A shares. It does not include the Shenzhen market which is smal...

It's looking like the market will begin a new upswing about Wednesday next week. It's also looking like the persistently overbought ...

Snork Maiden was offered the job in Australia. But she still needs to do a phone interview with the guy in Arizona next week. Looks like sh...

Yes it (SPX) failed for a third day in a row to close at a record high after trading higher intraday. The model switched to short in the ear...

for the second day in a row. Today and yesterday the SPX traded above it's record closing high from 2000 but closed below it. The NASDAQ...

On May 16th the U.S. Consulate in Sydney mailed a letter to my lawyer here in the U.S. with the date for my interveiw for green card visa. J...

Ron Paul's financial disclosure statement . Apart from cash, he mainly owns real estate, gold stocks, and bear funds. A surprising (to m...

Thought I'd follow up my recent investment in a listed private equity fund with some thoughts on private equity. It certainly is "...

This ETF cheat sheet is very helpful. This one only covers the US market. Bespoke plans on coming up with a cheat sheet for international E...

This evening I am buying 4000 shares of Allco Equity Partners . They are trading for $A3.87 per share so that is an allocation of about 3% o...

Today went pretty well. I started the day with some horribly losing positions and closed them for a profit (kind of - by making one much big...

An interesting story concerning the manager of the TFS Market Neutral Fund, which I am invested in . Marketers and managers of funds can be...

Shanghai opened down and Hong Kong up on Sunday night just like I expected. But then the Shanghai market quickly reversed to the upside. Th...

The bull market remains intact - the model is indicating that overbought conditions will persist next week. We might be very close to the fi...

That's what traders call it when they are losing money and their account is going down... I'm down 15.9% on my trading capital so fa...

I now found that most large US cities have some realistic building models as do some famous world cities - I checked out Sydney, Hong Kong, ...

Clifford tagged me with the magazines meme. So here goes: 1. Barrons - I have a subscription and read it online now. 2. Scientific American...

As I mentioned that I was obsessed with Google Earth, I have to share with you the latest cool feature I discovered. Many of the buildings ...

I was wondering where I was at so far this year (first four months) regarding passive (nothing to do with " passive investing ") a...

So I have been allocated 200 shares! Looks like they'll start trading on Friday .

Many personal finance bloggers and personal finance gurus are in favor of passive investing. Invest your money in the market portfolio rathe...

Several themes today.... I bought 25,000 shares in FLIP.OB , aka FTS, this morning. Yes it's a penny stock. Literally. I bought at 1.84 ...

All figures are in US Dollars unless otherwise stated. This month saw very strong performance, which has been the case for the last several ...

I logged into the smaller of my Mom's new accounts for the first time since we started investing with a certain manager of separately ma...

Symbion Health (SYB.AX) is again in merger talks. There is a bid from Healthscope (HSP.AX) and a couple of private equity firms that values...

Said Snork Maiden. This was when I told her the difference in commissions between trading a stock index futures contract on the Sydney Futur...

April turned out to be a good month in the end. I made $3278 from trading in my three US accounts. That's about a 10.9% rate of return (...

An article in Barrons this weekend suggested that Salesforce.com ( CRM ) would be a good stock to short. As usual I checked out the financia...

When I opened my account with Interactive Brokers I signed up to trade all electronically accessible US markets. But in fact one can trade m...

The earnings of Australian retirement accounts, known as superannuation accounts, are taxed by the Australian government at 15%. Contributio...

I paid off my balance transfer on my Amazon.com Chase credit card. I've had a balance transfer for the last couple of years and have bee...

Just before the close and going to my meeting of Graduate Porgram Directors I bought one Apple June $90 call. Looks like it worked out well....

The money arrived in my HSBC savings account today, even though 25 April is a public holiday in Australia (ANZAC Day). HSBC charge another $...

The "token" arrived from Commonwealth Bank in a bright yellow box with real Australian stamps stuck to it. Inside is this tiny ele...

The Money Diva tagged me to write about my obsessions, obsessive thoughts etc: 1. Obviously investing and especially trading. Even though I...

In the last couple of days I've wanted to place trades but just can't do it. Partly due to being up and then back to zero for April ...

I just placed a couple of bids in the IB IPO. Very simple. I bid to buy 200 shares if the IPO price is $27 and below and 100 shares if it is...

That's the theme of the moment. 1. Have everything I need to fax in the stuff to set up the transfers from my Australian account to my U...