The general consensus on Reddit from many investing subreddits is to “just buy VOO” set it and forget it. I have long been troubled by that mindset but I’m a different kind of investor. To be fair though, I decided to ask AI and create this new ETF Fight Club. I asked AI to create…
Covered Call ETFs And The Pareto Distribution
I started researching and analyzing covered call ETFs to see what was new and innovative but after coming across 140 different variants of nearly the same thing I stopped. It then occurred to me to simplify my search and look at things through the lens of the Pareto Distribution. In a nutshell the Pareto principle…
AI, IWM And Options Strategies
I don’t know if AI is trying to placate me or if we think in the same way but it is satisfying that it is validating my trading strategy even though it sometimes has better ways to execute it. To that end, I’ve been investing a great deal in IWM for a while now, the…
My Sinister Water & Gas Bill
As I continue to declutter this year I came across some old water bills from the city and I was a bit shocked at what I found. My water bill has grown 115% over 8 years for the exact same amount of water although the “sewer” charge has grown and we have less people living…
Struggling With Cash
I had about $90k of calls on IWM assigned recently and it now added that cash to a pool of money I’ve been holding. Yesterday’s market meltdown gave me hope that I could maybe deploy some of that cash into investments but lost that opportunity with today’s crazy rebound. Gold, silver, small caps, tech, S&P…
Annual Cost of Physical Therapy $5000 & Scam Care?
I have a bad back. Most of the time it’s ok but over the years my back pain flare ups have been happening with higher frequencies and often the pain, when it happens, is at a much higher level than in the past. To that end, one of the things that helps is getting physical…
The Cheapest & Best IT Support: AI
At the start of the year, I wrote about my New Year’s Actions because I wanted to get stuff done and I have gotten more stuff done with AI in five months than I’ve done the last 5 years. Here’s a recap. WiFi Rebuild I painstakingly rebuilt my whole WiFI network at home with the…
New Home AI Lab Up & Running
After using AI to save $1000 on a new network at home, I decided to use some of those funds to build me a home AI lab. It was a rough start which you can read about here but I now have my lab fully operational but I am still tweaking a few things. My…
New App: Bond Portfolio Dashboard
I’m going to sound like a broken AI record but AI has done it again. I built a bond portfolio dashboard for one of my accounts in less than an hour. The hard part was getting the data together because I had quite a few bonds in this account. I will need to do the…
Using AI As A Constructive Criticism Agent
I have been building a variety of tools over the past few months largely to help me with my investment portfolio and personal life but in this post I am going to tell you how I’m putting some of it all together although this is just going to be one small piece. I recently built…