Nicola Matarese

Circled Money Nicola Matarese

This book will impart some of my experiences and relationships with money. I will tell about my personal view on economy and finance and what I believe is the value of the work and its price. I will give some hints on how to calculate and reduce financial risks or hold on difficult situations. In the first section, you will find a quick description of what I believe have been the most important historical economic revolutions, from agriculture to the spread of semantic software. In some cases, I'll go into the details of a business plan providing representative case figures but just to help to understand the order of magnitudes for the topics we are talking about. In the second part, I suggest a way to frame and build a personal financial infrastructure and to develop a family business-management plan. In the last part, I tried to break down the value of time and work in an attempt to provide a method to properly manage our portfolio and invest in the financial markets. This method is based on a mixture of a discretionary approach, the observation of the stock market behavior and some principles from automatic trading (HFT - High Frequency Trading). This will help identifying recurring trends and the continuous setup of technical "supports" and "resistances" to run semi-automatic buy and sell transactions between these value bands. I will describe my method based on thought selection of financial products that in the long term hold the highest likelihood of generating value. This together with an approach inspired to the Martingale and a "straddle trading" tactic (operating with financial products that move in opposite directions) could, on statistical basis, give positive returns. Perhaps there is not a scientific method to make money because in economy there are "no free meals", but engaging the financial market with favorable probabilities is certainly a good method to achieve success.