The Business Word I invest and speculate to preserve capital and generate income for my retirement. My goal is to blog as objectively as possible, because I am trying to evaluate investment strategies for myself. Blogging helps me think about risks and opportunities.

While I write both bullish and bearish posts, I trade on the bull side. So I'm always looking for buying opportunities, but when a stock I'm interested in turns south, I write it up.

My trading in options to date has been limited to writing covered calls for income.

What I bring to the party are more than 40 years of investing, trading and writing about the futures, money and equity markets as a journalist, business owner and speculator. We're all speculators. Investors buy and run businesses.

Thus, I have a lot of experience in analyzing the fundamentals of the overall economy, sectors and stocks. In addition, I watch the charts and other technicals and use them to time my trades.