Why I Post Some Of The Stuff I do.
I was perusing my homepage and decided an explanation of why I post what I do and the way I do might be something to write about periodically. Recently, I\’ve published a series of posts on stock options, for instance. The posts are like flash cards used to study a given topic for memorization. Of the topics I post on this site, they are mostly things I\’m actively engaged in studying.
My educational background is in American and World History, and I have progressed to the graduate level in my studies. Still, I was forced to withdraw in about 2004 due to serious health issues and a complete lack of health coverage. At the time, in Minnesota, there was a Republican provision that if you voluntarily left an employer who had provided you with health coverage, you weren\’t eligible for state aid, no matter how serious the illness was. I was featured on TPT at a round table where Representative Kennedy offered a health savings account and a $2000 tax break. It was inadequate for anyone with my health problems at the time. We looked into private insurance, and at that time, it was about $10,000 a year.
There was an outflow of concern from TPT viewers, but yes, it turned out that a Republican proviso to the health insurance program Minnsure precluded me from benefits as well. Despite the life-threatening nature of the illness (a respiratory infection where I turned blue literally). To be honest, I don\’t have that much of a beef with the GOP when they adhere to their traditional values and avoid the far-right rhetoric that, in my experience, is divorced from reality. I have more confidence in conservative fiscal policy; it\’s just that they haven\’t been adhering to that for at least 40 years. I used to count myself as GOP, and I voted for Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush, but my experience with their proviso denying me health coverage and preventing me from finishing graduate school? That is when I began to question the ideology that had crept into the party.
However, I still study things. Currently, derivatives are in the form of stock options. I\’m looking at it as a business where you make money from selling the options regardless of what the underlying security is doing. A conservative strategy, arguably. The bit about my health issues is more for context. I don\’t get caught up in ideology, be it left or right. I\’m more interested in basic cause and effect. Options are, in a sense, pretty straightforward. The market determines things. I don\’t see the GOP following that sort of philosophy overall. Some do. Like Tom Emmer, even though I might disagree on some positions, we do agree on crypto to an extent. Just so a reader doesn\’t get the idea, I\’m just down on the GOP.
Going forward, though, my goal is to revisit my past studies in the college algebra area and to advance to at least some degree in calculus with a focus on algorithms. Hence, the articles on the basics of The Greeks in relation to stock options. Calculus and algebra are two ways of quantifying various aspects of the market. I post it mostly for my own purposes, which is to pull it up periodically on my computer, tablet, and phone and review it like a flashcard system.
When I start this with advanced mathematics, I\’ll probably have to use more images to depict various formulas. A bridge to cross when I come to it. Math has the advantage that in my position at Goodwill, I can get textbooks for about $2 each after my employee discount. One thing about math is that while innovation occurs at the high end, the basics have been pretty consistent over the years. Even older textbooks serve my purpose.
So, I do have a background in writing from source materials and probably could write textbooks. I\’m doing that on my other site, OXZO.com. Except there, I\’m focusing on topics related to traveling the world. Travel writing. With the Greeks and mathematics, it\’s more about business. It would be nice to make money on the travel materials, of course, but to me, it seems like a long shot. We shall see, I guess.
