Recent content by reinghar

FOREVER!!!

You boosted your income with welfare by 20% while your purchasing power decreased by 30% and you feel like you won something? Stimulus checks are temporary but inflation is forever.

Has anyone compared that to the legacy banking system? All those buildings and data-centers don't run on good intentions...

I spoke with https://greentradertax.com/ a while back. They were super knowledgeable about S.475, but I don't know what their fees are.

Do it with 500 stocks and call it the S&P 500.

As someone who has weathered a few of these crypto market cycles, it may seem crazy, but this is completely normal for this portion of the cycle. There will be an oscillation between the core coins (BTC, ETH) and the altcoins as speculators parlay their "gainz" into riskier and riskier coins...

Crypto mining is tricky. You have two parts: 1. At the time the coins are mined, that creates a taxable event at the current price of the token. This establishes your cost basis. 2. When you sell the token, you have capital gains, which is the difference between the price during part 1 and...

I ran a portfolio like that for a while, backtesting it by hand. I don't have the results handy, but they were positive.

It almost feels like the practice of charting by hand would be useful for increasing your feel for the market somehow.

I have been suckered in by the really clean scientific idea that you could apply mathematical models to finance, but I'm typically disappointed in practice. Although I feel like the Fourier transform would have merit, it would have to detect signals that are accelerating / decelerating. We...

Doesn't it feel like his most important skill isn't trading, but publicity?

That's fantastic. Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out.

I recently learned about Nicolas Darvas and his box system and I found the story so interesting that I'm hooked. I'm sure there are other interesting stories out there. Any recommendations? What are some of the oddest or most interesting stories about people trying to find an edge?

I spent the first couple of decades of my career working in tech so I'm overly familiar with this dilemma. If I were making the decision, I would look at the intangible things you'll need to do later. If you're just doing analysis, R is probably better. If you need to perform any...