I don’t know if AI is trying to placate me or if we think in the same way but it is satisfying that it is validating my trading strategy even though it sometimes has better ways to execute it. To that end, I’ve been investing a great deal in IWM for a while now, the…
Author: Rich Slick
My Sinister Water & Gas Bill
As I continue to declutter this year I came across some old water bills from the city and I was a bit shocked at what I found. My water bill has grown 115% over 8 years for the exact same amount of water although the “sewer” charge has grown and we have less people living…
Struggling With Cash
I had about $90k of calls on IWM assigned recently and it now added that cash to a pool of money I’ve been holding. Yesterday’s market meltdown gave me hope that I could maybe deploy some of that cash into investments but lost that opportunity with today’s crazy rebound. Gold, silver, small caps, tech, S&P…
Annual Cost of Physical Therapy $5000 & Scam Care?
I have a bad back. Most of the time it’s ok but over the years my back pain flare ups have been happening with higher frequencies and often the pain, when it happens, is at a much higher level than in the past. To that end, one of the things that helps is getting physical…
The Cheapest & Best IT Support: AI
At the start of the year, I wrote about my New Year’s Actions because I wanted to get stuff done and I have gotten more stuff done with AI in five months than I’ve done the last 5 years. Here’s a recap. WiFi Rebuild I painstakingly rebuilt my whole WiFI network at home with the…
New Home AI Lab Up & Running
After using AI to save $1000 on a new network at home, I decided to use some of those funds to build me a home AI lab. It was a rough start which you can read about here but I now have my lab fully operational but I am still tweaking a few things. My…
New App: Bond Portfolio Dashboard
I’m going to sound like a broken AI record but AI has done it again. I built a bond portfolio dashboard for one of my accounts in less than an hour. The hard part was getting the data together because I had quite a few bonds in this account. I will need to do the…
Using AI As A Constructive Criticism Agent
I have been building a variety of tools over the past few months largely to help me with my investment portfolio and personal life but in this post I am going to tell you how I’m putting some of it all together although this is just going to be one small piece. I recently built…
Exercised $25,000 In Puts
Not all trades are winners and that’s ok but the important thing is that your trades don’t lose you money and that’s the case today with Etherium and Bitcoin ETF trades I made a while back. Options expiry is tomorrow and I had hoped these digital currencies might rally but it was a bridge too…
Will Gold (Jewelry) Put You In Danger?
The current price of gold as I type this post is about $4500 an ounce (~$145/gram). A typical gold wedding band has about 3 grams of gold so if you’re walking around with your wedding band, you are flashing a small portable easily steal-able $435 object. Add in earrings, gold necklace and/or bracelet and you’re…