Jul 30 2007

Fundamental Rule of Day Trading: Preservation of Capital

I don’t necessarily encourage anyone to day trade, but anyone who will consider should remember the first law of making money: preserve your capital. Some day traders will go as far as to say that is all they do.
Here are my rules of day trading:

Have a good direct access broker with good execution [...]

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Jul 30 2007

Getting your tax refund for U.K. citizens

I’m always trying to make sure I have a little something for my global readers. After all my mom was born in India, my dad in Kenya, my brother in the U.S., and myself in the U.K. I truly belong to an intercontinental family.
For Her Majesty’s servants
I came across the website taxfix.co.uk recently. [...]

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Jul 28 2007

Can you get to work without a car? Biking/Training it to work

My experiment
Monday I plan on doing something I’ve never done in my life… Ride my bike to work. Actually I will be riding my bike to the light rail station, riding the train down, then biking it the final leg to work.
Yesterday I timed the trip to the initial train station. It [...]

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