Investments

Financial Samurai Predictions And Goals For 2013

The 2012 predictions turned out to be surprisingly on track with Obama’s victory, a 13% increase in the S&P 500, and a collapse in the social media sector. If you want to know how to become a better negotiator, study how the Democrats decisively outmaneuvered the Republicans into accepting $1 of spending cuts for every […]

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Something Far Worse Than Losing Money: Losing Someone Else’s Money

Losing someone else’s money is far worse than losing your own money. If you lose someone else’s money, you will have this tremendous psychological burden that will be hard to shake. For a brief moment in time, I wanted to be a money manager.  The idea of managing other people’s money was alluring. After all,

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Stock Market Armageddon Returns! How To Invest In A Meltdown

Stock market armageddon seems to happen every 5-10 years. 2018-2020 were extremely volatile years. Who would have thought the stock market would rise to all-time highs during a global pandemic! The best I could do was call a stock market bottom in March 2020. But I did not foresee this! I’m buying as many rental

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Understanding Structured Derivative Products As An Investment

Structured derivative products are a type of investment that provide some downside hedges. They are also called structured notes. I wrote this post back in 2012 after I got a six-figure severance. I was trying to figure out how to safely invest my severance with a hedge given I no longer had a job. I’m

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“We Are Wall Street” E-mail Fights Back Against Main Street

We have a culture of blaming others for our problems and Main Street is now on a tear with this “Occupy Wall Street” movement that’s gathering steam. The thesis is that financial institutions and anybody who has anything to deal with financial institutions are bad.  The government and the media help fuel the fire against Wall

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How To Drastically Increase Your Betting Odds And Help Other People

If you want to drastically increase your betting odds, this post is for you. As someone who worked on the trading floor for two major investment banks for 13 years, I’m very accustomed to betting. We proposition bet (prop bet) on random things all the time. The more bets you make, the better your betting

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The Economy Will Be Just Fine: 40,000 People Can’t Be Wrong!

If you’re worried about the state of the markets, don’t panic. The economy will be just fine. It’s important to use times of uncertainty to preserve capital and not do anything rash. As the markets were melting down this past week I decided to go watch the World Champion San Francisco Giants beat up the

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