Let’s face it….this series is starting out really slllloooowwww….. Unfortunately, i haven’t seen the setup i want/need to get the returns i’m looking for. (semi)interestingly, on the second day of my challenge, a stock that i hold in my IRA got a buyout offer…. tnk.to (Tenke) received an offer (that [Continue]
i’m looking to lever up in this one. i already hold it….we’ll see if i can get my price. more details this evening on the “why”, etc. fuBarrio If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed! [Continue]
It certainly looks like all Hell is breaking loose on the dollar index. Forex trades offer *significant* leverage and if you can guess right on a directional move you can make a bucket of money really fast. you can also have your head handed to you if wrong. Take a look at the last year on the [Continue]
gambling sounds so harsh….”speculating” seems more flattering….but maybe not as accurate. A proper speculation would utilize a SMALL amount of our available risk capital, and attempt to achieve a healthy gain for the overall portfolio while only having a small amount at risk. However, given our criteria — tripling our [Continue]
Ok….so a friend of mine was looking over my site today and i think her exact comments were, “dude….your site is ‘hell-a’ boring” hahahahha….oops! I tried to explain it away as “demographic targeting” and a conscious decision by the fuBarrio programmers to go after the high networth, low [Continue]
ok….the little birdie got *some* verification. i found a link citing the same price online….it’s the same original source however and “only” 100k pounds worth. crazy price advance given it was at 85/lb just a couple of weeks ago. looks to be parabolic by my reckoning…..i wouldn’t short it be would [Continue]
…that uranium changed hands at over 100/lb last week. actually, the rumor is that it was significantly north of 100/lb. for those that aren’t following along closely that’s greater than 2x from when I started this blog, 3x from when i went into it last year (very late) and well over 10x from when the [Continue]
Montevideo was rated the city with the best Quality of Life in South America by Mercer Human Resource Consulting. Worldwide rankings put Zurich Switzerland at number one and Baghdad at dead last. Here’s the link to the story that ran in Uruguay Daily News Montevideo News. p.s. I let them use my pic for that story with the [Continue]
If you are an expat and planning to live in a place that doesn’t use dollars as their primary currency, make sure to protect yourself…..especially if you are living off of investments or fixed income. One of the reasons that I predict the cup and handle formation “works”, as I outline earlier in this blog is [Continue]
Montevideo is enjoying some beautiful weather in early April. It’s just as well, because lots of March was nothing to write home about. Attached is a picture from Buceo, directly in front of my “office” ciao, fuBarrio If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed! [Continue]
