Me
I started investing in 1988, two years after I graduated from college. That is nearly a quarter of a century. I guess that makes me semi-experienced.
I am a computer engineer. Naturally I have been interested in numbers, logic, charting, statistics, heuristics, programming and application of those in different areas including investing.
Over the years I have read and thought and tried a lot of different things, but I haven’t found the secret formula or theory or chart pattern that are right all the time, or even most of the time. The market reacts to a host of things. At times it is unpredicatable although it is not totally random.
What I have found, however, is that in financial world there are so many theories, sayings or practices that do not have a solid basis, or sometimes no basis at all. They are mentioned again and again and since they cannot be proved one way or another, people start to take them as truths. I have examined some of them from time to time but didn’t have the time to do it systematically or to write about them (and years ago it was not as convenient to write and publish as we can do nowadays on cyberspace).
This year I seem to have found some time for writing, so I am going to do some studies and publish my findings here. Investment is a very personal matter, so I do not expect you to agree with everything I will say. I just hope that what I write will be useful to some investors, old or new, and that we can learn from each other.