I’m undertaking a 1000-day reinvention project, blogging here daily to track my progress. In Wednesday Writing, I consider my writing practice and skills and how to improve upon them.
As I’ve moved more into focusing on investing and trading as my core retirement activity, I’ve had a hard time writing. I haven’t published anything on Greensborough Drive (my personal newsletter), Reckless Investing, or my AI newsletter lately.
If you read mainstream financial advisors like Ramit Sethi or Suze Orman or others you will typically get the same advice: invest in a diversified portfolio of passive ETFs by dollar-cost averaging in over time. Hold onto that portfolio during corrections and crashes — it will come back! Be sure to include a big sleeve of fixed income. It will be ballast in the case of a storm.
But that kind of investing doesn’t work for everyone. It didn’t work for me. But what is working for me doesn’t seem worth writing about. It’s too personal.
I’ve been reading about other people’s journeys as they figured out what kind of trader and investor they wanted to be. It strikes me that each individual takes their own path.
This reminds me of painting. When I first started painting, abstracts and some representational, I followed YouTube videos, tried to reproduce other people’s paintings that I liked, and bought abstract acrylic books and worked through those tutorial.
But eventually I had to leave other people’s approaches behind. I had to develop my own personal point of view as an artist.
I’m doing that as an investor and trader as well, and it doesn’t lend itself to constant documenting. It’s too personal and idiosyncratic.
I imagine when i get through this particularly intense time of studying trading and figuring out who I am as a trader I might get back to writing on my newsletters again, but maybe not about my trading approach.