I am an engineering manager for a large engineering firm. I am not employed in the investment industry (*see below for update). Because of this, my views on investing are very different than many professional money managers. My knowledge of investing comes from years and years of self study, with a few classes from an MBA to provide a base.
The ideas and comments on the blog are my opinion – descriptions of how I view the markets and how I try and invest in them. You should not take the opinions of this blog to be investment advice in any way.
I will try and make historical data and representations of theoretical results accurate. But I will not make any guarantees on the accuracy, completeness, currentness, suitability, or validity of any information on this site and will not be liable for any errors, omissions, or delays in this information or any losses, injuries, or damages arising from its display.
Actually, there will be some errors. Part of my motivation in writing the blog is to find them . Please feel free to point them out.
The blog’s name comes from the thousands of hours I’ve spent studying the markets. After putting the kids to bed, I would often get on my computer for an hour or two. My wife would always ask if I was working, since I was clearly deep in thought. Most of the time I was. But when I wasn’t, I was studying financial markets. I would joking answer her, “No, I’m breaking the stock market.” She always found that answer ridiculous (and she was right). But the term stuck. When I decided to share my philosophy with the world, the name fit as everything here will come from my time spent “Breaking the Market”.
*This is no longer technically true as I founded the investment management firm Pronghorn Analytics, and now employ myself in the industry. BreakingtheMarket does not contain any investment advice.