Check Out the Size of This Check!...

If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know that I got much of my trading capital from doing real estate deals several years. Look at this picture from the first deal I did in 2002…not a bad payday. My last check was in 2005 for a property I sold right at the top of the market.  Got out before everyone started loosing their shirts in Real Estate (I’ll post most...

Profitable and Bankrupt at the Same Time...

Most people don’t think those two words go together. In fact, I never really thought about it either until I heard a story told by Jim Collins, the legendary author of Good To Great. Awesome book, by the way. It goes like this… Bill Lazier was a professor at the “prestigious” Stanford Graduate School of Business, and was known for his rather direct teaching style. When...