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[Investing] 2021/7/22

Posted on July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 by admin

Markets slowly recovering but not so much movement in gold and oil- This recovery is precarious…with lack of breadth, any bad news will likely trigger a panic selling- So today, I just set out most of the time. I bought MUX because I saw volatility with traders coming in to Continue Reading

[Investing] 2021/7/19

Posted on July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 by admin

Tough few weeks- With gold and silver rollercoaster- My super gold/silver miner concentrated portfolio took a 15% hit! Yup that is what happens when you have a concentrated portfolios with junior miners- However, I did expect a wild ride- It’s just more violent than expected. I am below 10% cash, Continue Reading

[STATA] Unique Number of Observations

Posted on July 6, 2021July 6, 2021 by admin

In research, we often have to figure out the number of unique observations- For a small set of data, you can of course just use the command cookbook. However, when you want to create a variable containing the unique number of observation by certain group then you can’t just use Continue Reading

[Investing] 2021/6/30

Posted on July 1, 2021July 1, 2021 by admin

Finally, I am back- What a busy month- Teaching, research, family- I am almost forgot about blogging…Well…I did- But now I am back- It has been a rough few weeks for gold, as it crashed to $1760 and silver also dropped- My concentrated positions (GOLD, NEM, MUX, HL, AG) all Continue Reading

[Investing] 2021/5/19

Posted on May 20, 2021May 20, 2021 by admin

It’s only Wednesday and the markets have been quite interesting as always- I have swing traded #HL, #MUX, #EMX, #BRG, and #BRT- Nice 1-2% returns. The intraday volatility is definitely not normal. For #MUX, I bought it -2%, then sold at -1%. Then it went down again to -2% and Continue Reading

[Investing] 2021/5/14

Posted on May 17, 2021May 17, 2021 by admin

Another crazy week- My portfolio went down from -2% to -6% then back to about -4%- Thankfully, I swing trades REITs and miners- Hecla Mining did really well- I will start accumulating more housing REITs now as AMH has increased vacant home rents by 10%- Housing price and rent will Continue Reading

[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