Moomin Valley

This month's trading result is again negative due to a few big losses . But this week (so far) is the best individual week since May, wh...

I've kept the 2007 goals on the sidebar but I've taken down the goals for 2008 and beyond as they are looking increasingly unrealis...

Howard Lindzon is calling a bottom in the stock market here. Is this the bottom? My model appears to be exiting the noisy conditions that m...

I voted yesterday in the Australian Federal Election. Snork Maiden came along, even though she can't vote here, and I was surprised to f...

Networth IQ has finally added the ability to search by country . Not surprisingly, Australia seems to be the best represented country outsi...

I lost money today, but not too badly which was partly the result of a little skill and a lot of luck. Again I got too caught up in thinking...

Amazing that Australia uses more petrol than France that has three times the number of people. Price of filling up a Honda Ciivc here is cur...

A good article about where we currently seem to be in somewhat longer term market cycles. I am also looking for the market to go down after...

Since the big loss on Tuesday I've swtiched trading tactics. I now plan to do pure day-trading in the near term - only betting on the di...

Current market conditions are only suitable for day trading in my opinion. The SPX model has been stopped out (1.25% or greater market move ...

Some glitch took down Globex (the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's electronic futures trading platform). I was actually watching the open o...

All my stuff that I shipped from the US was delivered this morning. I haven't done any unpacking yet apart from removing and throwing aw...

It's not the market nor the model, the problem is me. I just suffered my second worst loss per contract since I started trading futures....

My recent net worth reports have shown huge fluctuations due to the volatility in the Australian Dollar-US Dollar exchange rate. Returns ar...

Just got a call from the shipper this morning. They will deliver my stuff tomorrow. They could have done today but I need to accompany Snork...

My trading model has been performing poorly in recent months - the model is frequently stopped out - the market moves more than 1.25% in the...

This morning I fell victim to over-trading/over-confidence. I had been doing pretty well this month so far and then decided to make a trade ...

This is purely anecdotal, but it seems to me that there is more "price dispersion" in Australia than in the US. Price dispersion ...

I finally decided to write down Croesus Mining's value in my accounts to zero. The stock was suspended from trading ont he Australian St...

All figures are in US Dollars (USD) unless otherwise stated. This month saw a record gain in net worth in US Dollar terms, mainly due to the...

This month was again a poor one for trading and a good one for investing. It's somewhat arbitrary what I count as an investment and what...

I've tried estimating a single model for both the NDX and SPX. The rationale was that taking itno account the correlation between the in...

In after hours following the earnings release. I've long wanted to reduce my position for a decent price. I may buy back later if the pr...

Fifteen minutes is a tricky thing. It caused me to miss Apple's spectacular post earnings rise yesterday. But I still captured some of ...

Not of fame but of volatility. Something that I am gradually (and painfully) learning is it often pays to wait 15 minutes after news is anno...

I checked out the "product disclosure statement" a.k.a. prospectus for Snork Maiden's superannuation fund a.k.a retirement ac...

We got our Australian credit cards (credit limit $A3,000) and immediately put $A1,550 of the outstanding balance for the car onto it. We nee...

After some more to-ing and fro-ing and a couple of car inspections we bought the red car . It was either that one or the next model up from ...

I got messed up by this again today. I decided to play the Google earnings announcement. Up pops the EPS number on the Dow Jones newswire: $...

Did an NQ trade tonight (Wednesday morning in the US) that got back what I lost last Friday. This was an "overnight trade" though ...

Today, Snork Maiden got to drive a Holden Commodore (employer's car), a Ford Taurus (1997 model), a Holden Vectra, and a Ford Falcon (20...

I'm putting together a suite of several different trading strategies. Diversification is good as it leads to more stable returns. Here a...

I've been thinking some more about how to account for a car in net worth and spending following my discussion with commenters on this po...

I understand technical analysis to be any method that attempts to predict market moves based on past price and volume action rather than fun...

We almost bought this car. As I write we have a 24 hour deposit on it. But after reviewing lots of websites we decided against it. We were ...

And promptly lost. But everything wasn't bad about this trade. The model was short and I went short. I waited for the index to rise to w...

Or press the button, or whatever. I've been tracking the market closely for a few days now, keeping the model updated etc. Last night in...

Looks like some of the cash I discussed yesterday will go towards buying a car. We've been debating how much needs to be spent on a car....

We are about to receive a refund from Snork Maiden's employer of moving expenses. They've agreed to pay more than originally propose...

This morning I couldn't access the internet at all. After playing with all kinds of hardware and software settings for maybe an hour I p...

All figures are in US Dollars (USD) unless otherwise stated. This month saw very positive investment performance in USD terms, due to the sh...

PPP means purchasing power parity. At least that's what it means in economics. There are the regular market based exchange rates between...

We've been here more than two weeks now and the frenzied phase of getting a household set up is winding down. We returned the hired car ...

We got into our apartment today, spent a huge amount of money on appliances, furniture, etc. and got the phone and internet running. The las...

Met up with a second friend (T) last night. He brought with him all my mail - I've been using his address as my address in Australia unt...

My friend sent me an e-mail today. He starts: "this isn't meant to put any more pressure on you".... "but we have a tempo...

Yesterday lunchtime, we met with one of my friends here at the "Labor Club". In the "old days" we used to hang out at th...

After the first week here we are beginning to be able to relax a little. We saw Parliament House, Floriade (and annual Spring flower festiv...

It is easy to be optimistic about your financial situation when you are looking at projections of future finances. Well, as long as that is ...

We got all our utilities ordered, though to actually get phone/internet service a guy needs to come out to the unit. Likely we won't hav...

We signed the lease on an apartment yesterday but can't move in till next Friday. They approved our application without even apparently ...

We looked at 4 apartments today ranging in rent from $A290 to $A450 per week. We only looked at the $A290 one to see what you could get for ...

Today we saw one apartment and one house. The apartment was in a brand new luxury building. Rent $A450 per week ($US1666 per month). It was ...