Over the past six months, I’m not the only one who has seen the value of my investments plummet. After a 6 year bull run, the stock market was over-valued to begin with. On top of that, the housing bubble popped, poor sub-prime loan decisions have come back to haunt lenders, the national [...]

Suntech shares have become compelling enough that I’ve decided to sell my United Fire&Casualty position. When I have more time, I’ll update this post with why.
03/03/2008 Sold 50 UFCS @ 34.6006
03/03/2008 Bought 47 STP @ 36.9

Solar Power, it’s not just for granola-chomping hippies anymore. Solar power generation has been increasing exponentially for decades, but as futurist Raymond Kurzweil once said, nobody notices exponential growth until it hits the “knee of the curve“. Fortunately for us and our planet, it nearly has.
Between 2000 and 2004, the increase in worldwide [...]

It hasn’t even been that long since the last time the sky fell, and once again the market is taking some dips. Over the past five days, with the S&P 500 down by 3.4%, the Nasdaq down by 6.2% and the Xinhua China 25 Index down by 11.4%, several of my holdings have taken [...]

The major downside of taking on my current entrepreneurial project is the money that I’m not making any more. This pain has been further compounded by the fact that the stock I’ve been wanting to buy has grown by over 30% in the last two months.