Moomin Valley

This month the whole family traveled to New Zealand for a week.This was baby Moomin's first international trip. He also started daycare...

Since October 2018 when we nominally received the inheritance, the total allocated to cash, futures, gold, and bonds has remained fairly c...

A relatively uneventful month. Even though I went into the branch, I still have no news from HSBC on refinancing our mortgage... The Aust...

Back in August last year I designed a portfolio and invested for Baby Moomin with Generation Life . How well have his investments done? I ha...

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...