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…
Category: Risk Management
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…
Creating Synthetic Bonds That Beat SPY?
I entered a trade today to test a theory. The premise is around creating a synthetic bond using stocks and option collars. I entered the trade above and then asked ChatGPT to do a comparison. AI Response Below is a clean, apples-to-apples risk-adjusted comparison between your RBLX collar, 1-year T-bills, and SPY, using standard finance…
Tweaking My AI Apps
I’ve now had a few weeks with my AI built financial trading apps and I am now tweaking and slowly upgrading the capability. I have discovered that AI was giving me some unusual option trades and they were so intriguing that I’ve now changed my mindset around what I was trying to do because AI…
My Taxable Brokerage Portfolio For 2026
Driven in part by AI helping me optimize my investment portfolio, I am updating the ETFs in my taxable brokerage account for 2026. As a high income earner, taxation is a significant issue and driver for me in how I invest my money. Below is a table I created with AI to explain some of…
Zepbound: My Health Journey – December Year 2
We I’ve definitely flatlined, didn’t really lose or gain weight overall for December. Honestly, it was the holidays and there were just too many treats to eat along with family dinners on the 24th and 25th and because family came in we also went out to restaurants to eat and celebrate this month. Starting Jan…
Stock Market Valuations In 2026
I have been worried about stock market valuations for quite some time. So much so that I predicted my own layoff back in September of 2023 not because I am clairvoyant but because I’m old and have lived through enough recessions and stock market shocks that I ought to know better by now. I was…
New Financial App: Options Put Ratio Finder
I’m sitting on the recliner in my house watching Wisconsin playing Villanova and getting bored so I decided to check out some put spread options for fun and then it hit me! I can build a new app for a YouTube video I saw a while back from Options with Davis. If you want to…