This blog represents my personal investment ideas and strategies and tracks my real results in an open-portfolio type environment. It allows me to keep a journal of my efforts to outperform the market through the successes and inevitable failures along the way. More importantly, it allows you to read my profound thoughts, watch my incredible performance, and stroke my exceptional ego all at the same time.

I am a college student majoring in computer science with a strong financial interest. I started looking into investing during the middle of 2005 and have been learning ever since. After several model portfolios and plenty of reading I decided buying parts of strong companies was a pretty easy way to make a lot of money so I opened a brokerage account at the start of 2007 and began putting my money to work. A year after that, my relatively short-term (two and a half years if you include the model portfolios) market trouncing returns were enough to significantly ‘enhance’ my ego. Naturally, the next step was to start writing about it.

I’ve been attracted to financial blogs for awhile (thanks 2million!) and decided to create my own. They typically create a disconnect between the author and their money for privacy reasons by remaining anonymous. Though my identity is not public here, it’s not much of a secret either so I will instead maintain my financial privacy by publicizing my money in terms of percentages rather than dollar figures.

Since beating the market is quite competitive and requires knowing things other people don’t, I will be focusing on where I’m right and everyone else is wrong. With any luck, they will do the same for me.