A red herring is a preliminary report associated with an upcoming initial public offering (IPO) that is filed with the SEC. The report contains important details about the business, but does not contain specific details about the IPO itself, such as proposed share price and number of shares for sale. Red Herrings and the IPO […]
What’s up everyone? All right, so here we are, May 1st. Spring is in the air, and I’m looking forward to a new month. April was an interesting month for me. There were ups and downs. It was kind of like really, really great ups in the first two weeks, and then frustrating downs in […]
What’s up, everyone? All right. Here we are, end of April. It’s been an incredible month. Finishing the month up $55,000, and we’re going to break it down today. I’m going to talk a little bit about some of the lessons I learned this month, an amazing first two weeks, a little bit of a […]
The Sharpe Ratio is an asset’s average excess rate of return above the risk-free return rate per unit of volatility. The risk-free rate of return is the rate of return on an investment that is considered to be ‘risk-free’, for which the rate of return on U.S. Treasury bills is used. Therefore, any return on […]
In the world of finance the terms ‘trader’ and ‘investor’ get tossed around pretty liberally, and are often used interchangeably. To the uninitiated this may not much matter, but there are important differences between an investor and a trader. Let’s examine these differences between investors and traders, and see why it is so important to […]
Oh hey, I didn’t see you there. Well, another red day, down almost $12,000 today. They say you got to take the ups and the downs, hand in hand. But I’ll tell you, the red days are not as easy as the big green days. So today’s one of those days where I gave back […]
What’s up, everyone? All right, so here we are finishing the 71st trading day of the year. Right now I’m actually on my 307th day of trading since I started with $583 in my account, $583, and as of today I’m at $588,000 in that account. Today $2400 of profit. Green is good. Not the […]
What’s up everyone! Monday morning, back on the horse, back in the saddle, ready to trade. Today is one of those days where everything worked. Four trades, four winners, $4,808 profit, green is good. That breaks the red streak – Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of last week in the red. But cumulative loss is only about […]
Here I am, on the fifth stop of this amazing journey of trading and traveling around Europe. This time, I am in Lisbon and this is going to be the furthest west I’ll go on this trip. It’s been another incredible city to be living in, a city where I think there is the best […]
What’s up everyone. Alright, so here we are finishing my third day in the red. It’s getting a little disappointing but you know what? All things considered it’s still a great week, I’m up $5,000 on the week. Although it’s not the $32,000 I’ve been averaging for the first and second weeks of the month, […]
