On this New Year’s Day, we are very please to introduce Stilicon…

Investideas: Why are you using this nick and what does it mean ?

Stilicon is just an old name, not very used anymore, and so suitable for choosing a nickname. For those who care, a famous Roman general, born a vandal, in the very late Roman empire wore this name. Not that I do specially care about those things. I chose this nickname perhaps 10 years ago, and keep using it everywhere. Easier to remember.

InvestIdeas: What can you tell us about your background ?

Business graduate, school in Europe. Started in Auditing / Accounting in a big American firm that disappeared in the Enron scandal. Then I moved into the Pharmaceutical industry. Worked there for almost ten years.

InvestIdeas: How long have you been investing / trading ?

I caught this disease ten years ago. I spend the first four years losing money. Then I decided to become serious about it. I am doing it more seriously for about six years.

InvestIdeas: What are your favorite books on trading/investing?

I remember reading with attention “The Hedge Fund Edge” from a certain Mark Boucher seven years ago. With that book in hand, I started developing my first models for investing. At that time, I dreamed of developing a timing model (on a very large time scale) to decide whether to be in the market or out.

But basically I never liked to buy the much hyped investing books which are published every year.

Apart from that,

- I mostly read the weekly letter of John Mauldin (which I found very instructive in 2003 or 2004 and which has become far less interesting nowadays). Mauldin reads a lot and through his letter, you can gain some new interesting addresses. His Out of the Box letter is sometimes much more interesting. Subscribing to both is free of charge.

- I used to read the Daily Reckoning and other newsletters from the Bill Bonner & Co gang (also known as the Agora gang), because I share most of their views on our present world, but I am not sure this helps a lot for investing in our present world, albeit I still enjoy reading them.

- I read as much as I can from Donald Cox, which used to publish a free and very interesting monthly letter some years ago (Basic Points), which you can read again nowadays through more complicated ways …)

- I am a fan of Jim Rogers, Marc Faber, even at a time Peter Schiff, for their views on the economic global landscape. I especially enjoy their disregard of the keynesian “theories” (which are often mere clap-traps fabricated to support the grab of power by the State, everywhere and for the most part of the last two centuries), and I appreciate their more solid views based on the Austrian School.

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