I've FIRED

So I've finally achieved financial independence, I thought I'll post this on this blog, maybe someone's still reading it.

My latest blog is now at https://workinginsverige.blogspot.com/

Can't believe my first post here was 20 whopping years ago, WOW!

Current positions

So it's 1st of April.  And I just want to say I'm controlling 1.96 million dollars worth of US 20 year treasury bonds at the moment.  Pretty scary eh?  Well we'll see how it all pans out.  And no it's not an April fool's joke.  That's the end of my post hope it all pans out!

To GOOG or not to GOOG

So it looks like I'll be interviewing with Google again.  I have had a love-hate relationship with Google over the years.  First time I interviewed in 2007 and misheard the interview questions.  Plus the interviewer had to go to the hospital because his dad was sick.  In 2011 they contacted me again but I never heard from the recruiter after a follow up and went to the US for holidays after that.  In 2014 they contacted me again but no positions were available and earlier in Jan this year they contacted me for positions.  Now it turns out I may be better suited towards other positions rather than the product management position that I had a tendency to be tilted towards to, so could be a bit more time before I finally get interviewed.  But I'm wondering if it'll all go smoothly, I guess you never know with interviews.  But either way it'll be fun I guess.  And this won't stop me in my everlasting desire to retire.  Which I intend to do either this year or next.

Last year hand's down was the best year ever.  Long may that continue!

Opps

Okay I'm back to not so semi retired status again thanks to my account semi blowing up.  I even know exactly why my account blew up, thanks to over trading and panicky decisions.  Frustrating, but I've been here and I will learn.  Until next time then.  My account is still in the green at least.

Last month of the year

Very short post.  The stock markets are still on a roll.  Target S&P 2130 by year's end.  On another note I'm now effectively semi-retired.  It's a monumental achievement.

The onward march continues!

Currently the S&P stands at 1985 and change.  I am up over several hundred percent on various positions.  Will it hit 2130 by year's end?  Who knows?  Whatever it is, the year hasn't ended and it has been my best year ever, hands down and I've recuperated all my losses from previous years.  In fact I might be able to retire within the next year or within the next two years depending on how I play my cards.  Fingers crossed we'll see what happens.  I'm back on the early retirement track.  Sure I've been delayed by a few years but the day I hit my figure it's gonna be a great day.

I still feel gold and silver will have their day in the sunshine, but when that happens it's not going to be a good place to be.  Honestly may that never happen.

Another day another record

It appears as if this market is never gonna come down.  I'm up over 100% now on certain positions, and down 50% on my hedges since Gold rallied today.  But who knows what's gonna happen tomorrow?  I'm not complaining.  I've seen this pattern when silver went berserk in 2010.  This looks like it's history repeating itself.

I suspect tomorrow will be yet another record breaking day but we'll see.