Moomin Valley

Financial Independence recently asked in the comments why I don't just invest in a portfolio of stock index funds. I answered that I a...

Here are the contributions of each of 86 individual investments or trading vehicles in the 2019 calendar year (Australian Dollars): Of ...

Investment Returns In Australian Dollar terms we gained 12.61% for the year and in USD terms we gained 12.16%. This is a lot less than sto...

This month I decided to stop short-term trading again. I think you can make money doing what I was doing, but trading at a size that makes...

Following up on my post on the best portfolios for Australia , this post will lay out the new target portfolio allocation. The basic idea is...

The portfolio charts website, I wrote about before , now lets you do analysis using Australian assets, inflation etc! It turns out that the...

I've decided to stop short-term trading. In recent months it hasn't made any money, it takes up a lot of time, and it gives me a...

Well, that didn't last long. In November's report I said I would raise the risk allocation to palladium and soybeans. I just got sto...

A less frenetic month financially but somehow I didn't get to make any blogposts since October's monthly report . We started on ref...

The graph shows the monthly profits from idealized trading of an optimal portfolio of Bitcoin, palladium, crude oil, and soybeans futures...

I received a letter from the Australian Tax Office that I need to pay quarterly estimated tax payments. However, if the total estimated tax ...

This month we "inverted" our mortgage , paying off the mortgage and then redrawing it for investment purposes. As a result the mo...

There was an auction today for the house next door to us. It is almost identical though it is in better condition inside (our house will ...

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...