I started my 21 Day Fix Challenge on September 9th, or a little over a month ago, so this follow-up post is a little late. Apologies. So how did it go? Let’s dive in and find out. The Workouts The workouts were tough, but I was able to stick to them without any trouble for the first two weeks. I started running into problem at the start of doubles (doing…
I almost didn’t write this because as I’ve mentioned before, I’m very much focused on long term returns only and simply by mentioning the Freedom Portfolio’s returns after one week it draws attention to it. In many ways, that’s the last thing I want to do. I personally think that the movement of a stock over the course of weeks or months is largely irrelevant and instead am focused on what the returns will be one, two or ideally three plus years down the line.
The Problem It’s hard to remember which came first. Was it when the upstairs became unbearably hot one summer day to the point where the family slept in the basement at night? Or was it being woken by the sound of water dripping from the ceiling onto a stack of papers in our bedroom? Regardless, both events kicked off journeys that traveled a winding path that ultimately led to my…
Welcome to the first ever installment of the Freedom Portfolio! As a reminder, the Freedom Portfolio represents my attempt to beat the market (represented by the S&P 500 index) by buying and selling shares of individual companies. The portfolio represents the vast majority of individual publicly traded companies that I am invested in. I’ve been managing this portfolio since 2003.
Have you heard about Tilray (TLRY)? It’s the marijuana stock which has gone from $53 a share to $300 a share and back down to $100 a share… just in the past month! That’s not even as crazy as the single day where trading was halted 5 times due to volatility and went from being up 90% (in one day!) to briefly being negative, to finally finishing in the green.
About a month and a half ago, I wrote about my attempts to seek out failure and how, ironically, I had so far failed to find failure. I needn’t have worried, because failure found me: I was let go from my job at The Motley Fool. To be blunt, this sucks. It sucks a lot. I loved working at The Motley Fool and I really thought it would be the…
2016 brought the Xbox Fitness Challenge. 2017 brought the P90x3 Challenge. You didn’t think we were getting all the way through 2018 without another (probably futile) attempt by me to get into shape, did you? Since 90 days of 30 minute workouts didn’t work, I figured maybe I would try 21 days of 30 minute workouts. For 2018, I’ll be trying out Beachbody’s 21 Day Fix workout (and yes, I…
As you may have noticed, I’ve been on a bit of entrepreneurial kick lately. It started around nine months ago, when I talked about the lessons that I learned from my biggest investing mistake. It was there that I wrote about the saying that had really resonated with me and which was starting to change how I looked at things: “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”…
I’m not sure when it started, but my guess is that it coincided pretty closely with when my wife and I started watching Shark Tank. Whenever I thought of something that seemed like it could make a lot of money or fill some unmet need or just make life a little easier, I would turn to my wife, say, “MDI” and then follow it up with whatever half-baked idea I…
Disclaimer: All opinions expressed below are solely my own and do not necessarily represent the opinions of my employer, The Motley Fool. Also, while I will do my best to temper my words, it is very important to remember that investments in the stock market CAN lose value and that past performance is no guarantee of future results. The Problem April is Financial Literacy Month, and so I thought we…