The 10th Man Archive, November 2021

What a Correction Feels Like
  • November 25, 2021

What a Correction Feels Like

The market had been acting funny for a while, and I had a hunch that there was going to be trouble while I was gone, so I bought the 30 strike calls in the CBOE Market Volatility Index (VIX). 

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Fad Stocks
  • November 18, 2021

Fad Stocks

Peloton Interactive Inc. (PTON) was a stock market darling in 2020. Shares rose four-fold, as the company gave people a way to exercise and sort of socialize at the same time during the pandemic lockdowns. 

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Investing Is Fun
  • November 11, 2021

Investing Is Fun

We all know that picking stocks is a bad idea and that we’re sure to underperform a broad-based index. We know this. We got hit over the head with it in 2016–2017.

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Just Enough to Be Dangerous
  • November 4, 2021

Just Enough to Be Dangerous

Back in the mid-2000s, I was invited to an underground Wall Street poker game in New York City. It was held in the basement of a large restaurant on the West Side. I told the organizer that I had never played Texas Hold’em before, and he said, “Even better!”

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