Walter

“Two bottles of Malbec are gone. A joint has been smoked. It’s approaching midnight. At some point Araujo ordered some pizza and empanadas, and when his doorman calls up to say that the food has arrived, I pull out my wallet. As the guest, I say, I should pay. He shakes a finger. “No, no,”…

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Solar

Not much to do on my weekend review, the charts are too messy, needs time to settle for me to be actively looking at making trades. Solar did stand out for me though, below is a chart of the solar ETF $TAN relative to the S&P. Amongst all the turmoil solar barely blinked. I will…

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The Corona index

The guys over at Stocktwits have created a Corona index. A small basket of stocks that tracks Coronavirus related stocks frequently mentioned on Stocktwits. Below is a daily chart of the index. (You can view the index on Koyfin here) The top video conferencing app Zoom $Zm is part of the index and a stock…

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Marketplace 100

Earlier this month Andreessen Horowitz released Marketplace 100. “Marketplace 100, a ranking of the largest and fastest-growing consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies.” Food, travel & groceries dominate the list. And celebrity shout out services are a thing, and at number 67. “By offering celebrities an easy way to make money and build rapport with…

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Money abroad

I always knew you got charged for taking money out abroad, buying things abroad etc but I don’t think I ever realised how much. Lazy on my part. I just checked with my main bank account and it’s a staggering 2.75% + £1.50 per transaction! Makes you wonder how challenger banks can do it for…

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MLS Soccer Stats

I had an email this morning from FootballAdvisor.net promoting their MLS Soccer Trading Guide. For anyone interested in sport trading their are some interesting stats in the email: 61% of games see Over 2.5 Goals a game, with 69% of games seeing Both Teams Scoring 34% of Los Angeles FC games have averaged 5 goals…

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Golf dogs

I had a golf lesson over the weekend. The club are looking at allowing owners play a round of golf with their ‘well behaved’ dogs. I had never heard of this before but apparently more & more clubs are doing it. To me it seems opening up a whole can of worms leading arguments on…

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Gold

Going through the charts this weekend I noticed that gold has been getting bought heavily since October last year. The markets are forward looking. The next few months will be interesting.

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