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Forex Trading and Counter Positions: An Emergency Brake for Trades Gone Bad?
A few days ago I put up a post about how I was considering using USD/CAD long as a counter to USD/TRY short, entitled, The Loonie as a Hedge For Turkish Lira Carry Trades? Long story short, it worked....
What a Week (and then some)
Since my last post, now ten days ago, I've been pretty busy. Given the amount of self reporting I do on my investing, you can probably figure out where I've been. Up and down, up and down, and then do...
The Housing Bailout: Please Do This Right
I'm still waiting to see what the details of the proposed $700 billion to $1 trillion dollar housing bailout plan are that our government bigwigs are cooking up. At this point in time I'm not even con...
Despite the Wolves
While I was ranging near and far for work today (mostly far), I of course heard the news on the radio: the Dow dropped 450 points today, Chicken Little died of a heart attack, and it's all Bush's faul...
Cash In My Forex Method?
Since I started writing about my Forex experiences, and in particular my home grown method for trading in Forex, I've had a few people write to me to thank me for sharing my method. It's making people...
Diversify? Maybe When I've Got Mine
I spoke with a financial adviser (FA) type today. I've been one of those guys before, series 7 and 66 SEC licenses, life and disability insurance sales licenses, etc. I didn't stay in it long though s...
Why Day Trading and Scalping Are Not For Me: Time and Toys
If you've been reading my blog for a while then you're familiar with my slow and steady method of working the Forex market. I typically just place one order a day, I take profits when they exceed the ...
Forex: Safer and Safer Every Day
It's now several days into the first trade I've made with my forex project funds, unofficially sponsored by Discover Bank (I am paying them 1.9% annually though, so maybe I'm sponsoring them?). The ac...
Quotes of Note: Patience, Revenge, and Investing
"Beware the fury of the patient man." -- John DrydenI found this quote in the back of the latest edition of Forbes magazine in a feature they run called Thoughts: On The Business of Life. I like the q...
Forex: How Much Do You Need On Deposit for the Cash Flow You Want?
A few days ago I got an email from Tony of Get Swinked! telling me how he had plugged some numbers into the Forex spreadsheet I've authored for calculating returns with the trading method I use. It sh...
Forex: Carry Trades and Why I Don't Go "All In"
I've commented before on my particular method of trading the foreign currency markets, describing my technique as "watching the grass grow." And that's true - buying in just once a day, cashing out wh...
Finished Business
I got home after midnight last night following the three hour drive from Pullman, Washington to Walla Walla, Washington. It was one of those "tired, but accomplished" evenings. The lease on my former...
Forex: Risk, Reward, and OPM
In the coming days I'm going to launch another Forex project. This one is going to have an element of risk to it that does not exist in my typical way of going about this stuff, and I do not recommend...
Forex: My Current Return and Income At A Glance
I spent some time the other day putting together a dynamic spreadsheet to help me keep track of just what my Forex trading is doing for me. Prior to getting this thing organized, I was constantly open...
To Dinar or Not To Dinar, That is (maybe) The Investment
The scenario: a country is plunged into war and is reduced to rubble. Its currency's value goes the same route. Later, after the war ends and everything is rebuilt, the value of the currency is restor...
Yet Another Forex Direction?
While grilling some fat burgers on my balcony this evening, the realization popped into my head that at the current rate of interest I receive on my USD/TRY shorts, leveraged to the max (50:1, the mos...
Retiring My Debts: Order of Battle
When I was in the U.S. Army Infantry, I frequently received instructions as to what I was to do in the field in the form of mission briefings. The major element of these briefs was known as the "order...
Home Sweet New Home
It's done. I'm now once again back among the ranks of home owners. The last time I sat down in a title company office to sign the multitude of mortgage documents there always are to sign was slightly ...
Here Are Your Keys, Sir
It's official. At 8:15am Pacific standard time on Monday, March 17th, I will sign the documents that will return me to home ownership for the second time in my life. I've got some challenges ahead no...
Kiva.Org: Ma. Antonieta Martin Villalobos Gutiérrez
I'm still at it with my microlending to Mexicans through Kiva. Recently, I heard over the radio that Mexico's economy is experiencing overall positive growth, which eventually will lead to less northw...
Change of Plans: Maybe Later, Dividends
Recently I made mention of my plans to launch a new stock and bond portfolio that would be oriented toward dividend growth. You can read all about that here. I was thinking it over today and realized ...
Be Oyster Aware: When Food Attacks
If an oyster experiences a bit of bad luck and says, "aww shucks," will other oysters ever talk to it again? Puns aside, oysters can't talk, and that's probably for the best because eating them would ...
Chantix: You've Had Your Fun, Now Quit
Today was one of those days where my Forex account just knocks it out of the park! I came home from work to discover another $230 in profits, mostly cashed out as the Australian dollar appreciated aga...
Shake Down
I finally got all of my tax paperwork for 2007 together yesterday, so this morning I installed TurboTax on my computer and got to work. Long story short, I've come to the conclusion that I may need t...
Forbes: A Billion Laughs
"I just have to smile when billionaires like Bill Gates and George Soros turn cold shoulders to the blessings capitalism bestows. Or when their buddy, Warren Buffett, broadcasts the importance of hiki...
Dividend Dreaming: Sorry 3M, Gimme Pills!
In my last post about the new dividend portfolio I'm going to kick off next month, I mentioned that I might buy into 3M as my first stock position in this thing. I've changed my mind. Basically, I too...
U.S. Retail Sales Up in January, Yen and Swiss Franc Lower
I saw this come across the news ticker provided by my forex broker as my yen and swissy funded currency crosses surged this morning: LONDON (Thomson Financial) - The Japanese yen and the Swiss franc w...
Dividend Dreaming: 3M
It's funny how things you're thinking about seem to present themselves to you suddenly. Last night when I blogged about my desire to build a dividend portfolio utilizing the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocra...
Dividend Dreaming
Since mentioning in my last post about my forex trading that I'm thinking it's time to start moving some gains from that account into other investments, building a new dividend stock and bond portfoli...
Economic Stimulus Rebates: Individual Need versus The Broader Economy
I found an interesting tidbit in an AP article that appeared on Yahoo! Today. The article is about how the tax rebate checks mandated under the economic stimulus plan that Congress just passed may be ...
