Day 381 of 1000: Suffering and the Quest for Personal Progress
Ideas from Arthur W. Frank’s The Wounded Storyteller, applied to the Amazon Prime television series Patriot, and to my life.
Day 380 of 1000: The Emotions of Trading
As I’m learning to trade I’m feeling strong emotions like hope, fear, and misery. But I’m realizing that calm equanimity is what I need to cultivate.
Day 379 of 1000: Responding to Losses in Trading
Tom Hougaard says that how you feel about failure will define your life trajectory. How trading helps develop your ability to respond to losses.
Day 378 of 1000: Metis in the Markets
Calling on the pre-Olympian goddess Metis to bring me practical wisdom and skills as I develop my own options trading playbook.
DAy 377 of 1000: Becoming Carefree
Seeking a carefree state of mind in trading, and in facing my upcoming retinal surgery.
Day 376 of 1000: Forget Your Mistakes and Move On
In trading, as in life, it’s helpful to live in the present. Thinking about mistakes of the past puckers your attention and keeps you from succeeding now.
Day 375 of 1000: Refining my Trading System
What I’m trading, and how: screening tickers, entry and exit, rolling puts, portfolio risk management.
Day 374 of 1000: Arendt on Labor, Work, and Action
Arendt promoted the vita activa over the vita contemplativa and distinguished between labor, work, and action. The activa can support the contemplativa.
Day 373 of 1000: Eliminating Greed and Fear
Greed and fear is an inherent part of financial markets. How I’m eliminating it from my options trading approach.
Day 372 of 1000: The Probabilistic Reality of Financial Markets
Ideas from Mark Douglas’ book Trading in the Zone. Fully accepting that anything can happen in the markets.
Day 371 of 1000: Emotionally-Driven Transformation after Divorce
Kym Maclaren’s distinction between emotional clichés and authentic passions, and how it helps me make sense of my transformation after divorce.
Day 370 of 1000: Creating My Own hedge Management System
I’ve started trading options and realized I needed a systematic way to put in place hedges, to guard against market corrections and to improve realized returns.
Day 369 of 1000: Frugal is Fun
Thinking about how much fun I have with frugality, starting with the beautiful, free hollyhocks now blooming in my garden.
Day 368 of 1000: An Investing Epiphany
You can improve portfolio’s realized returns by adding a hedge that reduces portfolio variance, even if the hedge has negative expected returns on its own!
Day 367 of 1000: A Case for Persistent Inflation from the Energy Shock
Sharing ideas and research findings from economist Gianluca Benigno, who argues that large supply shocks can lead to disproportionately outsized inflation.
Day 365 of 1000: Sexism at the Start of Anna Karenina
Does Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina objectify women or is it a proto-feminist critique of society’s double standard about extramarital affairs?
Day 364 of 1000: The Magician’s Trading Plan
I’ve learned a lot from trading the options wheel over the past two months. Getting ready to add new types of options trades to the mix.
Day 363 of 1000: Making Magic
Today is a week for making magic, ordinary kinds of magic, magic in hosting a graduation, magic in getting immersed in a great novel, magic in creating a trading plan for all seasons and markets.
Day 362 of 1000: Irises Don’t Always Bloom
My transplanted irises didn’t bloom this year, and yesterday my options portfolio revealed I was swimming without a life preserver. Loving my floral and financial fate.
Day 361 of 1000: Imagining a Grand Narrative of Transforming through Grief
How I came to trading through grief after divorce, and why looking at it as a good story helps me cope.
Day 360 of 1000: Nietzsche’s Perspectivism and a Postmodern Presidency
Exploring how Nietzsche’s perspectivism relates to postmodernism, especially that practiced by the American right.
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