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Roger Nusbaum

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Investment Advisor, fire chief, blogger.

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Buffer Mania Reuters posted an article that could be summed up as man there's a lot of defined outcome and derivative income funds and they're getting m...

Buffer Mania

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The Craziest Article I've Ever Read? But first, a friend sent an article written by Pim van Vliet titled No Asset Is Safe But Some Lose Less . The first part of the article lays...

The Craziest Article I've Ever Read?

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From today's Fire training.

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Instrumental intro to Eminence Front.

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Lumon Industries?

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The Disillusionment Of Winning David Epstein wrote about an interesting idea (new to me) calledΒ  the arrival fallacy . The prompt was the recent press conference where Sco...

The Disillusionment Of Winning

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A Fun Post For A Crappy Day Friday was one of the craziest days in quite a while so let's keep it lighter with a few quick hits. Barron's wrote about the so called Trum...

A Fun Post For A Crappy Day

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Tremendous detail. No one knew there could be so much detail.

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Down 19% today. If you want volatility, you've come to the right ETF.

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A New Building Block Of Retirement Planning Erik Conley had a well written post about whether people might have too large of an emergency fund . He had a couple of very funny one-liner...

A New Building Block Of Retirement Planning

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Don't Try This At Home FIRE Funds Tweeted a lot of detail about its Income Target ETF (FIRI) which is a companion to its Wealth Builder ETF (FIRS) which I own a f...

Don't Try This At Home

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Car Fires and Long/Short Equity Bob Elliott wrote a blog post in support of the new Unlimited Equity Long/Short ETF (HFEQ). HFEQ uses a replication process, this from the ...

Car Fires and Long/Short Equity

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Building and maintaining muscle mass is crucial at all ages. Walking (on trails if possible), yes but also some form of resistance training with weight no matter the age.

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The Retirement Equation Three different personal finance/retirement articles to look at today. First, Barron's looked at taking mini-retirements every so often sta...

The Retirement Equation

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Saw this on Xitter

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Late Career Resiliency The Wall Street Journal took up the conversation about people close to typical retirement age being forced out earlier than they expected. ...

Late Career Resiliency

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Can We Make An ETF Out Of This Strategy? I had the idea to revisit long/short pairings and get AI's opinion. The specific long/short idea is to put 50% into a common stock and 50% i...

Can We Make An ETF Out Of This Strategy?

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More coming...it IS interesting

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The only time I watch CNBC is the one hour or so a month that Bloomberg shows the ECB press conference. The screeching on CNBC is brutal.

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Collaborating With AI To Optimize Portfolio Construction A few days ago, one of he advisors I subadvise for, asked me if I thought AI would replace us as advisors. Andrew Lo from MIT thinks that ov...

Collaborating With AI To Optimize Portfolio Construction

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Can Hedged Equity Replace 60/40? A bunch of quick hits today. Bob Elliott from Unlimited Funds blogged that for Q2 2025, equity long/short was the best performing hedge fun...

Can Hedged Equity Replace 60/40?

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TLDR: bend down and pick up heavy shit.

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Was it a Kruk game? His whole shtick is dreadful.

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Purposeful Solutions Abnormal Returns linked to a brutal article by Stat chronicling the increasing number of suicides in "older men" per the CDC. The first hal...

Purposeful Solutions

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"Yield Magicians" Jason Zweig went after some of the crazy high yielding derivative income funds . I don't use any of the YieldMax funds or any of the other c...

"Yield Magicians"

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Learning From Other People At the start of each fire training I provide a little briefing and then say something related to diet and exercise. In the diet and exercise...

Learning From Other People

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