Money and Finance
Well this past week was pretty uneventful for me. Just grinding it out at work, as per usual. The bright spot is that every day that I'm at work I essentially am saving 70-80% of that days pay. That's the beauty of keeping your expenses low and investing the rest. Creating and sticking to a plan is the difference between achieving your goals or not.
I can't say the week was uneventful for the government or the stock market. The markets were whipsawed around by the continuing government shutdown and looming debt ceiling deadline on October 17th. Of course as things usually go, I had no capital to take advantage of the drop early in the week. By Thursday there were rumors of negotiations actually taking place and the markets rejoiced. Me? Not so much. Just as I was starting to compile my hitlist and get capital transferred over to my brokerage account, the markets went on a big run on Thursday and Friday to erase some of the value opportunities that were available. I don't expect anything major to come through this weekend and I'm hoping that negotiations end in a stalemate. Much like all the other government involved fiscal crises, I expect the status quo of 11th hour agreements to come again. Hopefully Mr. Market will be in a sour mood to start the week. What's on your hitlist should there be further weakness in the markets?
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- Weekly Roundup - April 12, 2014
Image sourced from DigitalOperative.com Well Mr. Market decided to show up this past week and he broke down some walls like the "Kool-Aid Man", especially so for the biotech stocks and Nasdaq. The S&P 500 shed 2.09% on Thursday and another...
- What Are You Buying?
The government continues to remain deadlocked and it looks like that is going to continue up until the debt ceiling issue comes next week. Eventually they will work all of this mess out, but in the meantime the markets have been none too pleased. I'd...
- Weekly Roundup - October 5, 2013
This has been a crazy and frustrating week. First off they ended up calling us back to work on Tuesday. That was even earlier than the last time they moved the rig which was annoying, but what really irked me was that we didn't pick up our tool...
- Weekly Roundup - August 24, 2013
This past week was very busy for me. It started off with a quick call out on Monday to head back to work. I was hoping to be home at least until Tuesday and maybe until Wednesday, but they got things done at the rig much faster than I expected. I...
- Weekly Roundup - March 30, 2013
Where has the first 3 months of this year gone? Seems like just yesterday I was having to get used to writing 2013 instead of 2012 and now one quarter of the year is almost done. This past week was pretty good. Work went really smooth although I...
Money and Finance
Weekly Roundup - October 12, 2013
Well this past week was pretty uneventful for me. Just grinding it out at work, as per usual. The bright spot is that every day that I'm at work I essentially am saving 70-80% of that days pay. That's the beauty of keeping your expenses low and investing the rest. Creating and sticking to a plan is the difference between achieving your goals or not.
I can't say the week was uneventful for the government or the stock market. The markets were whipsawed around by the continuing government shutdown and looming debt ceiling deadline on October 17th. Of course as things usually go, I had no capital to take advantage of the drop early in the week. By Thursday there were rumors of negotiations actually taking place and the markets rejoiced. Me? Not so much. Just as I was starting to compile my hitlist and get capital transferred over to my brokerage account, the markets went on a big run on Thursday and Friday to erase some of the value opportunities that were available. I don't expect anything major to come through this weekend and I'm hoping that negotiations end in a stalemate. Much like all the other government involved fiscal crises, I expect the status quo of 11th hour agreements to come again. Hopefully Mr. Market will be in a sour mood to start the week. What's on your hitlist should there be further weakness in the markets?
Read more »
- Weekly Roundup - April 12, 2014
Image sourced from DigitalOperative.com Well Mr. Market decided to show up this past week and he broke down some walls like the "Kool-Aid Man", especially so for the biotech stocks and Nasdaq. The S&P 500 shed 2.09% on Thursday and another...
- What Are You Buying?
The government continues to remain deadlocked and it looks like that is going to continue up until the debt ceiling issue comes next week. Eventually they will work all of this mess out, but in the meantime the markets have been none too pleased. I'd...
- Weekly Roundup - October 5, 2013
This has been a crazy and frustrating week. First off they ended up calling us back to work on Tuesday. That was even earlier than the last time they moved the rig which was annoying, but what really irked me was that we didn't pick up our tool...
- Weekly Roundup - August 24, 2013
This past week was very busy for me. It started off with a quick call out on Monday to head back to work. I was hoping to be home at least until Tuesday and maybe until Wednesday, but they got things done at the rig much faster than I expected. I...
- Weekly Roundup - March 30, 2013
Where has the first 3 months of this year gone? Seems like just yesterday I was having to get used to writing 2013 instead of 2012 and now one quarter of the year is almost done. This past week was pretty good. Work went really smooth although I...