I am starting a short series of blog posts about why every trader/investor should pay for coaching and mentoring not just ideas. The next generation of investors and traders are growing up mobile. They are not used to paying for anything. I doubt that changes. They are being pitched robots and ‘tax harvesting’ and low fees. …

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I have been managing money in a hedge fund for 18 years. This month I decided to wind that part of my business down. I have had a great run. I easily beat the S&P over this period. My partners have been fantastic, but they don’t really care. I don’t blame them. Since all my …

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I like to look at charts and talk to people.  Prices are pretty much the only thing that make sense to me.  While the markets were crashing in January and February, real estate held pretty firm.  Prices in Manhattan and California did not blip.  A few weeks ago WeWork raised money at $16 billion.  It’s …

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‘Putz or Yutz’ was the first tagline for my blog ten years ago. I was 40. A regular media lightweight. Obviously I was angrier … for god’s sake there were no smartphones! I changed the tagline quickly to ‘Trends… Find them, Ride them and Get off’.  I manage money and writing was really helping me …

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I hear from Twitter that Twitter is 10 years old.  I have some great memories and like everyone that uses Twitter, very different use cases.  When I first got into Twitter in 2007 it was a toy. I burped, I farted, I peed and I ate. I shared a lot of it. The financial crisis …

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My daughter Rachel got into Babson College yesterday. She is thrilled. We are thrilled.  Babson is a school that focuses on entrepreneurship. Yesterday morning – before we knew Rachel was accepted ( 3pm was the planned admission acceptances being emailed to students) – I penned this short piece on entrepreneurship for Rachel on Facebook and …

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I purchased some PayPal this week. Here was my order in real time thanks to Robinhood :    Her are a few charts from StockTwits stream:        If PayPal busts through $40 and closes there I would be adding more because no matter how much I like a stock or company, I like …

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It’s nice to see someone poking at the ‘passive’ investing phenomenon. In the New Yorker this weekend, James Ledbetter asked ‘Is Passive Investing Actively Hurting the Economy?‘ I have felt for a while that ‘passive’ investing has gone to the extreme. I believe strongly in dollar cost averaging into stocks, but I also believe that …

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Five weeks ago I was buying some stocks …describing what fear looked like in this blog post. Panics do not come along very often in US markets and I noted on January 31: I chose to buy a few stocks and it worked out. By Friday, we got some relief and you can panic at …

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   I was reading yesterday that Snapchat will do 300 plus million in revenue this year. Not too shabby for a company not trying too hard yet to make money. Over the years I have tried 8 or 9 times to figure out the product and each time I have deleted the app.  The 10th …

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