Moomin Valley

Investment/insurance bonds are an Australian investment vehicle, which is a bit like a superannuation fund but actually is formally a typ...

Well, that didn't last long. I think it is definitely possible to make money using this daytrading method, but it is definitely not for ...

I continue to struggle psychologically with shorting Bitcoin futures and as a result make mistakes and lose money. So, I investigated how ta...

Thought I'd just post the "equity curves" from our three trading accounts. Moominpapa: There is trading in the first half...

The graph compares idealized trading of the ASX200 futures contract, known as the "SPI" (share price index) vs. buy and hold. T...

Just got stopped out for a 7.06% loss on Bitcoin trading. That is the worst loss that the Bitcoin model has suffered so far. So, most losses...

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

I figured out a way to adapt the turtle trading method to systematic day-trading. I plan to apply it to markets which tend to move strong...

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

I finally got around to doing this analysis for June: It's not as straightforward as my other reporting and probably takes 20 minut...

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...

Because the financial year has just ended in Australia, this report has more estimated figures than normal. June was another pos itive mont...

My last post looked at my trading profit and loss from futures, ETFs, CFDs etc. But it didn't include individual stocks, which I traded ...

I was wondering how my trading performance looked over the long haul and put together this chart which is cumulative profits from trading...

According to this article , there are only 40 active accounts trading CME bitcoin futures. I can't read the whole article without paying...

Unisuper are raising the cost of income protection insurance by 43%. I can't see why I am paying for this insurance any more, and, so, I...

In May the Australian Dollar fell from USD 0.7047 to USD 0.6930. The MSCI World Index fell 5.85% and the S&P 500 6.35%. The ASX 200 ros...

At this point we have probably finished expanding our allocation to bonds and from here the share will fall again. So, I thought it would ...

Bitcoin is again rising over this weekend, so far. I set a stop buy order in my CFD trading account, which allows me to trade Bitcoin 24/7 f...

The weekend move in Bitcoin extended into Monday's trading and Bitcoin ended up rising 25%. You can see how much of an outlier that was...

I've noticed that in recent days Bitcoin has gone up starting at around 6pm US Eastern time when all stock markets in the World apart fr...

A couple of days ago I posted about the asymmetry of market returns capture by the target portfolio. The portfolio captured less than 100%...

Last year, I posted that increasing trading position size when volatility is lower didn't make sense for my trading system. When the vo...

The graph shows monthly returns for the target portfolio vs. the MSCI World Index in Australian Dollar terms. The linear fit shows a beta ...

I just discovered that while going long a Bitcoin futures contract requires margin of about USD 16843.75 per contract, going s...

In April the Australian Dollar fell from USD 0.7096 to USD 0.7047. The MSCI World Index rose 3.18% and the S&P 500 3.72%. The ASX 200 r...

This morning Bitcoin plummeted several hundred dollars at the open of the US overnight session on Globex. It triggered both my sell sto...

I had forgotten about one of Labor's proposals to increase tax. Limiting tax free pensions to $75k per year. I've now added it to th...

I came to the conclusion that none of the trading tools I developed are reliable. They can match market behavior for a while and make money,...

My brother is planning sending me my share of the proceeds of selling my mother's apartment. If we sent the money in Falafeland curre...

Seems like April is the time for me to think about trading. I developed a very simple mechanistic trend-following model for trading Bitcoin ...

In March the Australian Dollar fell from USD 0.7106 to USD 0.7096. The MSCI World Index rose 1.32% and the S&P 500 1.94%. The ASX 200 r...

More financial frustrations today... Recently I set my phone up to pay cardlessly using the CommBank App. But today, I went to buy lunch and...

If you move money to Interactive Brokers through the American banking system, they put a hold on your money so that you can't withdraw i...

I thought it was time to buy Bitcoin when I heard that CBOE was dropping Bitcoin futures contracts. Supposedly, when everyone hates somet...

Currently, Australian superannuation earnings are taxed at 15% and 10% for capital gains while you are in the "accumulation" ph...

I got an email today from the city planning office that the development in our neighbourhood that I had objected to was refused planning ...

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

Pengana Capital is launching a listed investment trust that will invest in global (but mostly North American) private equity funds. I a...

As we move further away from an equities oriented portfolio , I think that benchmarking against equity indices makes increasing less sense. ...