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[Investing] 2021/5/5

Posted on May 5, 2021 by admin

2021 is already too interesting and we are not even half way there yet- Yellen created a mess when she said inflation is coming but then she backtracked… wow what policy mishap. She is getting old or she doesn’t care- Anyway, never give too much power to the Fed or Continue Reading

[Investing] Biden Tax Everything-

Posted on April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 by admin

Biden did it again- One way to scare the markets is to increase capital gain taxes- He will surely anger his overlords that have propped him-I doubt the capital tax will go through as many young people are trading and they voted for Biden. Plus, hedge funds who supported Biden Continue Reading

[Investing] 2021/4/20

Posted on April 21, 2021April 21, 2021 by admin

I have been very busy with teaching and research- So I did not have to write posts but finally a bit of time- Well, some break- Despite the busy schedule, I still kept trading- My winners are gold/silver miners with nice swings- HL, MUX, AG, and EMX have performed well. Continue Reading

[Investing] 2021/3/26

Posted on March 28, 2021March 28, 2021 by admin

Another volatile week- Went down but came up with swing trading gold miners- #NAK and #HL worked pretty well. Also, #EPM did well as well. I am still down 8% but swing trading softens the blow. No more long term buy-and-hold to add yet except may be for #HL, which Continue Reading

[Investing] EPM Swing Trading March 2021

Posted on March 21, 2021March 21, 2021 by admin

Three months ago, I posted about EPM swing trading. So how has it been? Ahh- The rise and the volatility- I sold before the rise in March but got back in again after the fall- And I am swinging- My main strategy has been to buy when the stock falls Continue Reading

[Investing] 2021/3/19

Posted on March 21, 2021March 21, 2021 by admin

This week was wild again- Up, down, up, down- I sold a lot on Wednesday and bought back on Thursday- Great swing trading- But this market is definitely broke. I swing traded in and out of NAK, which worked out quite well- I am still bullish gold miners and REITs- Continue Reading

[Investing] Risk of Passive Investing

Posted on March 13, 2021March 13, 2021 by admin

Nice piece about the risk of passive investing– The main point is by being passive you are overweighting tech which is likely overvalued. Good point but I would not worry so much as we are tech economy now and as long as you hold for a very long term, you Continue Reading

[Investing] 2021/3/21

Posted on March 12, 2021March 12, 2021 by admin

Another volatile week- I recovered some of my losses- Yay- BUT! The economy is still in the gutter and markets will come back to reality. Swing traded #EPM and #BRG mostly- One of my positions, my very long #TPL is doing well and I expect more money coming in- Buy Continue Reading

[STATA] Creating 6 Digit CUSIP and 5 Zip Code

Posted on March 6, 2021March 6, 2021 by admin

Today, I will cover a super easy code but extremely useful- This is a question that I was asked several times by PhD students and master students who were beginning to code or did not how to code. So how do we extract 6 digit CUSIP from a 9 digit Continue Reading

[Investing] 2021/3/5

Posted on March 6, 2021March 6, 2021 by admin

Wow- What a week- Down- Down- Down and today, we had a bizarre buy-the-dip occurring- Of course, as always, I have been swing trading so I made small profits daily- I just wished I didn’t swing so early today- Instead of making 1%, I could have made 5% on AG Continue Reading