I am late getting this post out but that’s because of the Thanksgiving holiday. The good news is that I actually lost 3 lbs in November including the Thanksgiving holiday and now I’m back on track to weight loss. I had stopped losing weight when my doc told me to get off the med so…
Category: Risk Management
Buying EURO Currency Via FXE
The Euro is getting crushed by the dollar and I think it’s a great time to pick up some EURO currency. I wrote about hedging my investment portfolio a few days ago with Swiss currency and I’m now looking to buy Euros. The chart above shows FXE is at 10 years low from a high…
Using Swiss Currency To Hedge Your Investment Portfolio
There are many ways to hedge an investment portfolio especially if you have a majority of your investments in the U.S. market and indexes such as the S&P 500. One of my occasional tools is to hedge my portfolio through purchases of FXF or it’s related options. SPY vs FXF Divergences I asked AI to…
Managing Equity Risk In A Stock Portfolio
Another heated topic on social media is how to manage risk in a stock portfolio. It seems far too many people have a binary mindset when it comes to investing. They are either fully invested in stocks or they are fully out sitting on cash. There are alternatives to those binary modes. Below is a…
Sold & Redeemed $50k of Bonds
I sold off $30k of bonds via an ETF I had, TLT, this week and that’s on top of the $10k bond that got called and another $10k that will get redeemed tomorrow. Suddenly, I’ve sold off more bonds in one week than I thought I would do but there’s a good reason for it…
Zepbound: My Health Journey – October Edition
I have now been on Zepbound for 9 months and I’ve lost 26.4 lbs so it’s like giving birth to one heavy baby! I wanted to wait till a full year before I published this chart but I am publishing it now for a few reasons. First the chart: I started this journey at 305…
Lost Decades, Moves To Cash & Sequence of Returns
A Wealth of Common Sense had a great post about the Sequence of Returns which is a must read because it fits into a theme I’ve been writing about for a while now. The Sequence of Returns post makes the argument that the time to buy stocks is when they’re getting hammered because ultimately, when…
The Great Retirement Debate: 4% or More?
I read and watch a lot of videos on retirement because that’s the next big stage in my life so I want to maximize my knowledge around the topic. The big debate for the past year has been about what is the safe withdrawal rate for your portfolio. Dave Ramsey thinks it can be 8%…
Wall Street Gobbling Up Trades – Rental Owners Beware!
The Wall Street Journal had a recent article entitled, “America’s New Millionaire Class: Plumbers & HVAC Engineers” that is a must read for every property owner. Here is a key quote: Private equity, however, is no foreign player in the skilled trades these days. PE firms across the country have been scooping up home services…
SPY All Time Highs – I’m Buying More Puts
Every time SPY spikes to all time highs, I tend to buy PUTS on SPY as a hedge. It’s no different this week and you can read about my past SPY Put buying in August here and and September here. So what did I buy? I bought $570 Puts for June 2025. A few of…