This past weekend I went to Home Depot and bought some seeds and soil for a home garden. Over the years I have gardened on & off largely growing small veggies but mostly herbs for my kitchen. Unless you’re a farmer, the math for home grown veggies almost NEVER works in favor of the home…
Category: Risk Management
AI: KRE/XLF Put Options For A Correction
As AI has proven to be far more useful and knowledgeable than me on trading, I am now taking higher and higher risks with AI. My latest thought was to hedge against banking crashes so I asked AI to give me the best options on KRE (S&P Regional Banking ETF). I gave AI options data…
What Are Key Financial Preparations For A Fiscal Crisis?
Yesterday, I wrote about Key Financial Warning Alarms and today I’m going to tell you some of the things I’ve been doing. Liquidity Protection What Should You Do? I have no idea, you and I don’t have the financial intimacy needed to give you any kind of advice but I do know that you should…
What Are Key Financial Warning Alarms To Monitor?
I’ve spent the week prepping for a Financial Apocalypse that may or may not come but I’d rather be prepared than not. There’s a saying, “I’d rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it!” As a follow up to Is Your Personal Finance Ready For War, I decided to…
Is Your Personal Finance Ready For War?
I only have a post or two scheduled for publication because I am prepping for war. Technically, we’re not at war or maybe we are, it’s hard to tell with our current government but in any event there were refineries in many parts of the middle east that have blown up. The Straits of Hormuz…
Rotating From IWM To TLT
Every investor needs to make decisions for what’s best for their needs at their current point in time. For me, I am rotating away from small caps (IWM) to bonds via TLT. This is largely a move to reduce risk as TLT is a 20 year bond ETF. Don’t take anything you read here as…
Zepbound: My Health Journey – February Year 3
Well I went to the doc and told him I have flat lined in weight loss. Doc upgraded me to 15mg but I have to take the 12.5mg as an intermediary step which I started this week. Ironically I lost 2 lbs in February BEFORE starting the new higher dose so I am hoping I…
AI: Market Crash Between June 18 and August 21?
Now that I’ve created some apps largely relying on probabilities to make informed trades, I decided to play with AI and try to figure out what the best window would be for a market crash this year. When The answer came back sometime between June 18th and August 21st for this year. What It’s more…
VOO vs SCHD, What About Taxes and Income?
The endless debate on Reddit investing forums seems to be the VOO vs SCHD or Growth vs Income/Dividends. I came across the YouTube video below which does a good job of discussing the pros and cons of each. In the video, investing equal amounts in both VOO and SCHD over 30 years produces $5.6 million…
Zepbound: My Health Journey – January Year 3
It is amazing that I am now starting year 3 on Zepbound. Over the past two years I’ve lost about 40 lbs but around November I started “flatlining” on weight loss. I had the same thing happen on the first year around the same time. Starting Jan 1, I got on Atkins diet for two…