Investing Lesson #4: Always Someone Faster Than You
I was taught early on to frame athletic competition in specific way, to understand the depth of the players on the field. As a kid, the exact saying that inspired this lesson had a different meaning to me than it does now, which I’ll explain in a minute: “There’s always going to be someone bigger,…
Thomas Jefferson’s Wisdom on Being Young and Broke
“I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income. To calculate in good time how much less pain will come from the plainest style of living that keeps them out of debt, than after a few years…
The Who Cares Mentality
As the Winter Olympics pick up, I am enjoying watching the various sports that revolve around cold weather and snow. In many ways, it is our natural given duty and right to become experts at the cold and snow. It is largely why we are here today – our ability to thrive even under freezing…
Investing Tip #3: Never Trade on Your Phone
Endless marketing campaigns try to make this aspect of placing trades while “you’re on the go” a cool thing to do. Skiing? Just stop at the top of a mountain and place trade right from your phone. Skydiving? Just trade your portfolio right before the big jump. At the end of the day, you can…
What’s Next For The Silver Trade?
The owner of Zhongcai Futures in Asia has apparently placed a $300 million short bet on silver making it one of the larger “all in” global bets on the precious metal. I should be clear, this news has been circulating for several days now – so, yes, he may have reduced or changed this trade…
Thinking About 5% GDP Growth
As an investor trying to think where the growth comes from next, I think you can really reduce it to a simple question: If you want to see sustained 5% GDP growth, is the goal to make more things move around on little computer screens? Have more people typing on keyboards? Or do you think…
Investing Tip #2: Have You Actually Used The Product?
In my quest to continue writing quick and witty investing tips, as seen here in my first tip, I am ready to post tip #2 which is as simple as this: Have you actually used the product you think is a good investment? If the answer is no, what are you thinking. Investing in something…
Investing Tip #1: Would People Actually Miss the Company
I’ve been thinking about quick and witty investment sayings. I want to start my own series on the topic. So this is post one. Here’s my first go at it. If that company disappeared tomorrow, would the people who use it still care in 48 hours or would they move on with their lives in…
From Epic Trade to Epic Crash: Silver Edition
The other day, I was fascinated by the rise of gold and silver. I feel it marks an important shift in the movement from bits (SaaS, software, tech) to atoms (robotics, space, AI) and there were signs emerging that just made this make sense. In a short period of time, the run in both gold…
The Epic Metals Trade That Defines The Next Era
I am looking at markets today, following themes and trends, and one stands out: The ticker $GOLD (gold.com) is going parabolic. As the price of gold and silver increase, the dealers, miners, builders, and manufactures of these metals also catch a bid. Check out the chart I made on Finviz: A lot of people are…
The Great Silver Breakout of 2025
I love looking at charts near the end of the year to see what worked, what did not, and most importantly, what happened that everyone missed. Silver, this year, falls perfectly into the category of what everyone missed because while 2025 was dominated by tech stories, politics, AI, and other things, another move was building…
The Age of The Polymath
I think a lot about the job market and especially students who want to land a job right after school. With AI, this is changing everything for jobs that are being automated away. At the same time, there is a solution: step away from the idea of specializing in a single subject, because that entire…