Archive for March, 2011

  • The Importance of Being Quiet [Guest Post]
    Posted by on March 24th, 2011 at 2:21 pm, Comments: 0

    [Please welcome Patrick Dugan. Below is a guest post he's written taking us through some experiences and exploring a trading style that attempts to eliminate [...]

  • Being a Minimalist Trader is NOT easy: Example #175
    Posted by on March 23rd, 2011 at 11:58 am, Comments: 0

    Sean’s Shadow: So you want to be a Minimalist Trader & Investor and hold stocks forever, eh? Great! How’s that first investment working out for ya?

  • A Tale for ‘ol St. Patrick
    Posted by on March 17th, 2011 at 7:00 am, Comments: 0

    [On this fine St. Patrick's Day in Chicago, I thought I'd share a poem written with a Chicago flavor and performed on various Improv Stages [...]

  • The Minimalist Trader: High Expectations
    Posted by on March 15th, 2011 at 7:52 pm, Comments: 0

    The Seventh Installment of THE ENEMIES OF THE MINIMALIST TRADER series.

  • Buy & Hold is Dead, and other fallacies.
    Posted by on March 11th, 2011 at 12:23 pm, Comments: 0

    2001: Internet Stocks are crashing: SELL EVERYTHING! GET OUT! 2007: Gasoline Prices are killing the consumer: SAVE YOUR MONEY! RETRENCH! 2008: Banks are crashing, mortgages [...]

  • Never Sell a Winner.
    Posted by on March 6th, 2011 at 1:25 pm, Comments: 0

    In sports, in life, in business, and in investing, never sell a winner. I’ve been giving this some thought lately. Initially spurred on by Warren [...]

  • Who will mind the store if you cannot?
    Posted by on March 4th, 2011 at 11:24 am, Comments: 0

    So I’ve been sick all week (I blame this guy), and its gotten me thinking about some of the virtues of my minimalist approach to [...]

  • How I started my Hedge Fund…and what I learned NOT to do.
    Posted by on March 1st, 2011 at 11:54 am, Comments: 0

    I get a lot of questions sent to me from readers of this blog. I respond to most of them privately. Though, occasionally I get [...]