I mentioned in a blog entry over a week ago that I was going to play some basketball with some locals and a couple of expat friends. Club “trouville” was the location (which I’d never visited before) in the neighborhood of “Pocitos”. Trouville is also the name of a restaurant/bar and another pizza restaurant in [Continue]
A couple of shots that I thought looked “pretty” that Golden Lotus took at the Nuevo Pocitos “ferria”. Basically (if i’m spelling it right – it turns out i wasn’t it’s “feria”). A feria is a street market. During the week, various neighborhoods have them to sell honey, eggs, cheese, [Continue]
Ok. I admit it. I’m amazed by Hollywood. How exactly does the action movie star *know* that the faint whining in the distance is really an 18 wheeler, out of control, about to crash into the side of a lingerie store that he and his fiancee are casually shopping in…..or that the glint of light across [Continue]
I’ve made some references to the fact that it is winter(y) here. Here are a few snaps to give you a feel back in the northern hemisphere where i’m sure it’s all “sunshine and strawberries” right now : ) Take a look at the two pics below. I tried to take the pic from the same [Continue]
Banco de la Republica Oriental de Uruguay, better known as BROU is the big government bank here in Uruguay. If your visceral reaction to the sentence above doesn’t conjure up visions of machine like efficiency you would be correct. I had the extremely eye-opening experience of going to downtown Montevideo in an attempt [Continue]
The news coming out of New York is that a large investment house lent their name to two hedge funds that now find themselves in trouble with losses from the subprime mortgage market derivatives. Merril Lynch (one of the creditors) is looking for blood, and Blackstone is trying to broker a peace deal between the [Continue]
…continued from my previous post on this matter. Let’s review some tenants of successful speculation: Let your winners run Good trades almost always go right, right from the “get go” Cut your losses short Try to buy into identifiable trends Don’t have an opinion Don’t advertise what you are doing [Continue]
I previously blogged about the unusually unfettered mullet population roaming freely on the streets of Montevideo…..while it may seem odd that a bald dog is commenting on anyone’s hairstyle, it is merely my effort to inform with “paws on the ground”. in case you’ve been in suspended animation the last 8 years, this [Continue]
…or when “bad trades go worse”. well, even though i moved a signficant portion of my trading portfolio to cash, i left on a trade from my “house hunting days” and got “stopped out”….forced to take a loss after a 10% loss on the trade. to refresh your memory, i put 10% of my “house” fund [Continue]
The more time I spend in Uruguay, the more I start to think of it as “home”. It is afterall where GL is, where I lay my head on a daily basis, where I spend my productive hours working (now) and where I am pursuing legal/permanent residency. When I first came to Uruguay it was a [Continue]
