Moomin Valley

I met today with a "Premier Relationship Manager" at HSBC . We are going ahead with the mortgage refinancing. They will send a val...

Capitalise is an automated trading platform that uses commands written in near natural English at a very high level. I heard about it when ...

I completed the transfer of money into our brokerage accounts from the " mortgage inversion" .  That completes a major step in our...

I tested silver futures as a possible addition to the trading portfolio . When combined with Bitcoin, palladium, and crude oil its optimal p...

The bad news is that the worst historical losing run in Bitcoin is eleven losing trades in a row. The good news is that least we now have...

Just enter the amount, press the button, and: Now to transfer the money to investment. This is how I account for this re-structure: ...

It won't be for long !

We switched from short one contract of Bitcoin to long two this morning, booking a USD 30 loss on the short trade. We are long two as the pe...

I started exploring testing portfolios of trading strategies. For this, I decided that in looking at return on capital where capital is the ...

After doing our tax returns I can now report the breakdown of income and spending for the 2018-19 financial year, following up on the break...

I first wrote about this four years ago . I realized today that I could actually pull this off next month. At this point, I have close to...

Here are my taxes for another year: On the income side, Australian dividends, capital gains, and foreign source income are all up stron...

I've now tested Bitcoin, ASX200, palladium, and crude oil futures trading using Barchart data . So far, only ASX200 futures were not pro...

In September the Australian Dollar fell from USD 0.6729 to USD 0.6752. The MSCI World Index rose 2.15% and the S&P 500 1.87%. The ASX 2...

I put together a dataset for the ASX 200 futures for the past 5 years - Barchart have this data. Every possible " Turtle " strate...

I did an analysis of the optimal trading strategy for Palladium futures using Barchart data . Previously, using free data, I had found that ...

I signed up for the Barchart Premier subscription . Among other things, this gives access to daily open, high, low, close etc. data for all ...

Following up on the monthly report for August , here are the returns of each individual investment or trade. As usual, I have aggregated ...

Stock markets fell in August but we did OK in Australian Dollar terms and not so bad in US Dollar terms. The Australian Dollar fell from U...

As we don't yet have a will, I have been reading this book , which is a simple guide to this topic with plenty of examples. I now see...

In July, generally alternative investments and small cap stocks did well and gold and our trading did poorly. Some things were just bo...

After suffering some losses , it looks like I've got our trading back on track for the moment: We were stopped out of Bitcoin this ...

I decided that the best provider of investment bond s is Generation Life . This is mainly because they seem to be scandal free, not about to...

July was another pos itive month for long term investments, but we lost money trading. In July the Australian Dollar fell from USD 0. 7012...

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...