Chapter 2 Part 3
Ms. Tobelmann begins her career, intending to be a corporate banker. But that changes quickly. Completion of school, marriage, new home, new job — with all these life events occurring in a short...
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Since no high schooler really yearns to pursue a career as a trader, Ms. Tobelmann begins to explore the events in her humble life that led to such a path. How about TRADER? No, I did not hear that...
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“We’re pleased to offer you an annualized 0.4%, for the next three months, on your savings account, Diane!” Wow. That’s up from an annualized 0.2%. Not wanting to sound ungracious, I replied, ” Oh,...
View Article“If there’s a war…
The stock market will plummet,” my mother said with an appropriate level of gloom and doom. She’s right. And a war’s impact on the stock market is trivial compared to the human sacrifice. I pray...
View ArticleA Best Day Ever Day
I have always been a fan of Sponge Bob Square Pants, and whenever I have a day that brings a smile to my face, I think of the spongey star’s song The Best Day Ever (see...
View ArticleChapter 2, Part 1
High school is a time one starts narrowing in on possible careers — but is one of those a trader? Chapter 2 The Accidental Trader Mom I pulled open the steel-framed door to the school, preceded...
View ArticleWaiting
What am I waiting for? According to some experts, I should be waiting for Europe to implode, or the price of oil to skyrocket, or for interest rates to to rise. For these scary reasons, I’m holding...
View ArticleHope and Appreciation
Selling a stock is sometimes like saying NO to your child. You don’t like being the party pooper, but doing so may be best in the long run. Take the (common) occasion when one of the kids asks to stay...
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The author embraces her trader mom identity. Trader mom: stock trader during the day, mom at night. I had a passion for both. During the market hours, I was focused on news, on companies, on how I...
View ArticleGreece and the Dough Boy
One of the advantages of being a trader mom is that my job is both flexible and portable; in fact, right now I’m volunteering at my daughter’s school. I didn’t need to ask anyone for permission to...
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