Moomin Valley

My university has a big deficit currently and one money-saving move has been to ask people who are eligible to take long-service leave. Ever...

   Back in 2012 I invested in Argo Investments for a while. I don't know why I sold it. There were no new investments that month and I d...

I made three bond investments and have completed the initial investments for the SMSF. I bought two US baby bonds - Scorpio Tankers ( SBBA )...

I made a second property investment application today. This one is to Domacom which is a fractional property investment or crowdfunding pl...

This is the first new investment in our SMSF. Real estate is the area where we are most underinvested relative to our target allocation. The...

Of course, bitcoin went straight down after I got in and I have now closed that trade. There was no real basis to that trade. I just went i...

 I'm finally back into Bitcoin. The position I could get was tiny. Margin requirements are crazy. On IB they are something like twice th...

This month we took some big steps towards fully setting up our self-managed super fund. Trading didn't go well, but I persisted, followi...

Last three ASX200 trades were stopped out, which is very unusual. The worst in the backtest was two stop outs in a row. Each day the market ...

I didn't know that the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) audits applications for new Self Managed Superannuation Funds (SMSF). This guy f...

I made AUD 589 trading ASX 200 futures and CFDs in February. I have now compared my trades to the trades the algorithm specifies. If I had t...

HEDGE FUNDS SURGE IN FEBRUARY AS INTEREST RATES RISE HFRI Equity Hedge leads broad-based gains as retail trading tre...

The month ended quite turbulently, but stock markets were still up for the month. The Australian Dollar rose from USD 0.7663 to USD 0.7737. ...

I've now been trading the ASX200 systematically, mostly on Plus500, for two weeks. I'm only ahead by about AUD 500, but that's n...

I've decided to slightly tweak the target portfolio weights to reflect a larger allocation to hedge funds. The top level allocation is 5...

I got a statement from the new HSBC account and submitted it to Plus500 and it was approved! So, now I tried to withdraw $1,000. They at lea...

  HEDGE FUNDS GAIN IN JANUARY, NAVIGATING VOLATILITY HFRI Event Driven, RVA & Crypto lead strategy performance; ...

I traded each day according to the rules and had 3 wins and 2 losses and ended up AUD 219 for the week. If that is a typical week then I wou...

A constant risk trading strategy in the day-trading context is where your maximum loss possible is a constant. There are other definitions i...

Today's trade was a winner, recovering a bit more than half of yesterday's loss. This is going to need a lot more research. Especial...

Just over a year ago, I decided to stop systematic trading . This wasn't the first time . The problem with my trading systems was that t...

Treasury (TWE.AX) rose sharply today with no announcement from the company or news in the media. At one point it was up 9%. This was on a d...

As there is no estate or inheritance tax in Australia, I think it makes much more sense to give money to charity while you are alive rather ...

I made it my new year resolution to finally set up an SMSF. This is the next step in our financial restructuring process. The final step wil...

The rallies in the Australian Dollar and the stock markets continued this month. The Australian Dollar fell from USD 0.7725 to USD 0.7663....

  I sold 2000 shares of the Boulder Income Fund (BIF) closing our position and bought 100 shares of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/B) instead. Ber...

It's rare to see hedge funds beating the major stock indices to the upside these days, but that's what happened in December when the...

  As promised, here are the contributions of each of 62 investments to our annual investment return. Of course, these numbers (in Australian...

Overview  The main financial themes of this year for us was continuing to invest the money we inherited in late 2018 and surprisingly stro...

    I opened a CFD trading account with Plus 500 in Moominmama's name in order to hedge Bitcoin trades over the weekend and do other tra...

Recently, I invested in the Aura Venture Fund II. There was a "first close" but the fund is still accepting new investors before ...

The rallies in the Australian Dollar and the stock markets continued this month. The Australian Dollar rose from USD 0.7361 to USD 0.7725. T...

About one and a half years ago I opened an account for baby Moomin with Generation Life to invest the money he inherited from my mother. For...

Inspired by Financial Samurai's post , here are the track records of our two Interactive Brokers accounts over 2020. Moominpapa (in USD ...