Indulge me for a moment, dear reader — I’m going to wander around thinking about valuation and about short selling, then get into talking about a current situation that closely mirrors some of the long/short pairs trades I’ve done in the past year or so. Then we’ll talk some about gold, since that seems to […]

Checking in on India after the election, and the ongoing tech sector fear of ChinaQualcommHuawei5GPanic, updates on Fairfax, Okta, Qualcomm, Nokia and Keysight... plus reader questions on selling and Mtech

A few buys and sells in the Real Money Portfolio, with notes on Nokia, Ericsson, Xilinx, Qualcomm, Hershey, Zayo, Altius, Largo Resources, CoreSite, Mtech Acquisition and more...

Thanks so much to the new folks who’ve joined us as Irregulars this week — we’re midway through our annual charitable membership drive, and it’s looking pretty good… I’m hoping we can get our totals up to last year’s numbers, and we’re almost halfway there with a donation pile of close to $6,000 now. That’s […]

Happy holiday season, campers! What’s up with the Real Money Portfolio as we head into a slow Thanksgiving week? The most brutal takedown of the week was NVIDIA (NVDA), which I’m sure many of you noticed this morning — that’s a stock that hit a stop loss a while back for us (I was watching […]

Plenty has happened in the past week or so, as I’ve been on the road (both vacationing in the sun and working in the rain), so what’s up with the Real Money Portfolio? On the news front we’ve gotten a lot of earnings reports since I last wrote to you — Alphabet and Facebook had […]

Notes from the Fairfax Financial Annual Meeting (plus sum-up of a bunch of transactions -- more coming in separate posts this week)

Full summary of sentiment on my Real Money Portfolio, plus notes on Berkshire, Fairfax, Ligand, Shopify, Omega Healthcare, Square, U.S. Gold, Yatra and some other SPAC speculations