RunawayTrader

OK, so I lied.
I promised in an earlier post that I wasn’t going to write a book with that cheesy title, and yet, there’s the title, right up there on this blog for the entire world to see. And for a writer like me, it’s a small step from flashing that title in public to [...]

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Admittedly, I am an amateur at running away forever. Thus far in my chronicles, I’ve been content these past months to day trade in some very predictable locales, Cuba, Hawaii, Key West, San Miguel de Allende, Las Vegas, etc. And none of them has been strung together like beads on a continual global adventure.

As I [...]

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Before the market went kerplop! about 4 or 5 months ago, I was boasting in this space how smart I was by earning a solid $1000 a day in the market. If you recall, I created a grand stock trading system that provided results so spectacular I knew they were simply too good to be [...]

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I must be having a second childhood, or something. Ever since I spent that week in Key West, Fla., thoughts of boats have been flitting about my head. Big boats. And since the market treated me very nicely today, I had ample time to muse even though I’m a little short of the downstroke to [...]

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The trading day is barely half over and already the cash is pouring into Runaway Trader’s travel coffers like the Columbia River in spring.
My favs – probably like everyone’s top picks – behaved wonderfully. BIDU up 29 points. FSLR blowing past 18. GOOG up nearly $30. I’m assuming a good day was had by all.
Meantime, [...]

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Your faithful runaway trader took advantage of a typical Minnesota spring snowstorm to go skiing Saturday. Mother Nature dumped at least 6 inches of fresh, albeit sticky snow on Afton Alps, one of the local skiing haunts, and the lure was too much to resist. It was almost a lesson in gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
I [...]

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“I can see those South American countries now,” he eagerly bubbled on that morning so long ago. “This is going to be a wonderful trip.”

And thus began the tale of Minnesota’s most memorable, and some say, misquided, sailor. Charlie Poliquin is the amateur arkwright who ran aground on sandbars, ran afoul in legal bars, and at [...]

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There’s an old saying among traders that you should never fall in love with a stock. The meaning, of course, is that all stocks — even the ones that have treated you with buckets of profit — can turn on you in the blink of an eye and leave you with six inches of cold steel [...]

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If you’ve just joined this blog in progress, you may remember that I promised, and then fulfilled a recent pledge to dump my gold when the market reached $965 an ounce.
Of course, no sooner has I sold off when the metals market continued to rally, and I got a bleeding case of seller’s remorse.
Today, I got my [...]

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Ok. So the Fed pops for 75-basis points and the market rallies. Is this the bottom? Is it safe to start betting heavily?
I wouldn’t even do that with your money.
As promised, I was a sideline observer when the announcement was made, and for reasons having nothing to do with that bulletin, I bought nothing. Most [...]

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