There I was, all starry-eyed, reading about Warren Buffet’s life several years back while trying to learn more about value investing. Like everything I thoroughly enjoy, I was totally engrossed in Roger Lowenstein’s book “Buffet, The making of an American capitalist”. The story is gripping, you get the inside scoop of one of the greatest […]
When asked what they’d rather fight, a horse-sized duck or many duck-sized horses, people choose the second option. In the stock market, both possibilities can wipe you out: either a big drop or many small drops. It was around the time when the infamous “Yen-carry event” was happening that the drops in the share price […]
De curând m-a contactat o cunoștință să mă întrebe despre stock options și dacă are rost să își piardă vremea cu ele. De obicei, start-up-urile din Vest oferă recruților „stock options” pentru a-i atrage ca angajați. Stock options îți oferă oportunitatea de a cumpăra stocks, adică acțiuni în firmă, după ce ai lucrat acolo minim […]