As many people in my life would note, I don’t get very excited about anything. It’s not a knock; I really don’t. I just try and approach everything as dispassionately and logically as I can manage in the moment. That is also the approach I have used in the market for a number of years (well after getting caught up buying $YHOO ’99 anyway – some lessons are more expensive than others).

Most of the 00’s I wasn’t actively trading outside of quarterly rebalancing of funds and, fortunately, I had the sense to just hold pat through ’08 and ’09. Unfortunately I wasn’t very liquid when the markets finally did bottom out having bought a house mid ’07 at what I thought was a bargain at the time. I did manage to scrape together some money and buy $F at fire sale prices, and watching that play out over the next couple years really ignited my passion for investing.

As I got more into everything I started dabbling with options and futures and then looking into what is driving those markets. Of course the next step is to start modeling behavior looking for alpha. I am a bit of a generalist, in that I pay attention to macro, fundamentals, flow, really any data and information that I can get my hands on and see if I can integrate it into my analysis. The long and short of it (I like puns a lot) is I actively trade futures and index options while keeping my eyes peeled for mispriced equities that I can take a position in.

I will talk about a lot of things here, but don’t construe anything said as financial advice. I am not a fiduciary, and I especially have no fiduciary duty to you. If I lay out a long or short thesis for a particular equity/sector/commodity/anything I actually invite you to challenge my views and to use it as a jumping off point for your own research if you think either side of a trade is interesting to you.

-Meh