I’ve been liquidating some of my stock investments because I don’t have a good feeling about 2026 and beyond but that doesn’t mean there aren’t potential opportunities out there to make money. My two latest trades are net credit collaring SLV (Silver ETF) and NFLX (Netflix). SLV (Silver ETF) In the SLV trade, I bought…
Author: Rich Slick
Zepbound: My Health Journey – November Year 2
I am late getting this post out because I appear to have flat-lined in weight loss again. This happened around the same time last year as I approached my 1 year anniversary on Zepbound. I am now approaching Year 2 anniversary which will happen on February 1. The dilemma for me is that I don’t…
AI: Tax Optimizing Investments For Account Types
The biggest problem I see with financial “experts” on TV and the Internet are bad assumptions. The biggest bad assumption that annoys me to no end are “advisors” that don’t start the process by looking at things through a tax lens. There are only two certainties in life: death and taxes. Perhaps I am a…
AI: What Are My Stupid Financial Mistakes?
After using AI to test some portfolios for ETF income, covered call ETF income and inflation, I decided to ask about the most common things that can derail and investment portfolio. The response was interesting and surprising because I saw my own actions and behaviors in the list. And that’s the great thing about AI,…
AI: ETFs for High Inflation
In my continuous search for the best investments under different conditions and testing the “intelligence” of AI, I have once again, created a portfolio using AI under inflationary conditions. The goal this time was to create a 3 ETF portfolio for high inflationary period lasting 5 to 7 years with inflation growing from 3% to…
AI: 3 ETFs For A Recession
I continue to play with AI and I’m loving the speed of the research capabilities. This tool reduces hours of work down to minutes and my latest play with it was to create a 3 ETF portfolio for a recession period but with the caveat to build it for a quick recovery. The assumptions I…
AI Is Starting To Eat Itself
Since it’s a long holiday weekend, I decided to indulge myself in some heavy reading and YouTube videos on AI to catch up on all the latest changes because it is moving very fast. I will summarize it all with a snapshot image from a YouTube video by Rick Mulready on AI, you can watch…
What Happened To Black Friday?
I had two Thanksgiving celebrations this week, one on Thursday and one on Friday for different parts of the family. In years past, part of the discussion around the dinner table were things people intended to buy on Black Friday. I remember some family members saying they were getting up at 4 am to go…
Horrible Fund Options In 401k
I managed to get the rollover checks from my old employer’s 401k already and I am in the process of depositing into my new 401k plan however I have run into a snag…. The new provider has absolutely horrible 401k fund options. I haven’t downloaded all the prospectus yet but the ones I have downloaded…
Happy Thanksgiving!
Hope you are celebrating this Thanksgiving holiday with friends and family.