Sunday 29 December 2013

2014 預期開支分佈

預期 2014 年收入:
人工:600,000
股息:20,000 (以現有的 500,000 股票計及假設股息率不變)
期權:10,000 (2013 年成績)

總收入:630,000

支出:
家用:180,000 (人工三成)
交稅:60,000 (約今年所交稅項)
交通:50,000 (油錢,停車場費用)
飲食消費:50,000 (午餐、電話及假日消閑)
其他支出:50,000 (網球、健身教練)
月供股票:240,000

總支出:630,000

除家用及稅項外,其他支出應有10% buffer 位以上吧,如果再將持有股票部份優化,應可增加股息收入到 30k 左右…但缺乏流動現金是一個隱憂,可能會考慮減少月供股票或動用低息稅貸增加可動用現金… 3 個月後再作 review 吧...

Monday 16 December 2013

Excelsior

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/commencement-address-houston-0607.html

Below is the prepared text of the Commencement address by Drew Houston '05, the CEO of Dropbox, for MIT's 147th Commencement held June 7, 2013.

Thank you Chairman Reed, and congratulations to all of you in the class of 2013.

I'm so happy to be back at MIT, and it's an honor to be here with you today. I still wear my Brass Rat, and turning this ring around on graduation day is still one of the proudest moments of my life.

There are a lot of reasons why this is a special day, but the reason I'm so excited for all of you is that today is the first day of your life where you no longer need to check boxes.

For your first couple decades, success in life has meant jumping through one hoop after another: get these test scores, get into this college. Take these classes, get this degree. Get into this prestigious institution so you can get into the next prestigious institution. All of that ends today.

The hard thing about planning your life is you have no idea where you're going, but you want to get there as soon as possible. Maybe you'll start a company, or cure cancer, or write the great American novel. Or who knows? Maybe things will go horribly wrong. I had no idea.

Being up here in robes and speaking to all of you today wasn't exactly part of my plan seven years ago. In fact, I've never really had a grand plan — and what I realize now is that it's probably impossible to have one after graduation, if ever.

I've thought a lot about what's different about the life you're beginning today. I've thought about what I would do if I had to start all over again. What got you here was basically being smart and working hard. But nobody tells you that after today, the recipe for success changes. So what I want to do is give you a little cheat sheet, the one I would have loved to have had on my graduation day.

If you were to look at my cheat sheet, there wouldn't be a lot on it. There would be a tennis ball, a circle, and the number 30,000. I know this doesn't make any sense right now, but bear with me.

I started my first company in a Chili's when I was 21. My cofounder, Andrew Crick, and I had never done this before. We were wondering if you needed to wear a suit to City Hall, or if you needed to make a company seal for stamping important documents. It turns out you can just go online and fill out a form and be done in about two minutes. It was a little anti-climactic, but we were in business. Over onion strings we decided that our company was going to make a new kind of online course for the SAT. Most kids back then were still using these old-school 800-page books, and the other online prep courses weren't very good. We called it Accolade, an SAT vocab word meaning an award of distinction. Well, actually, we called it "The Accolade Group, LLC" which we thought sounded a lot more impressive.

I stopped at Staples on the way home to pick up some card stock. Clearly, the most important order of business was to Photoshop a logo and print out some business cards that said "Founder" on them. The next order of business was to hand them out at conferences, and tell girls "why yes, I do have a company." It was awesome.

But the best part was learning all kinds of new things. I lived in my fraternity house every summer, and up on the fifth floor there's a ladder that goes up to the roof. I had this green nylon folding chair that I'd drag up there along with armfuls of business books I bought off Amazon and I'd spend every weekend reading about marketing, sales, management and all these other things I knew nothing about. I wasn't planning to get my MBA on the roof of Phi Delta Theta, but that's what happened.

A couple years later, things started going downhill. I felt like I had to paddle harder and harder to make progress, and at some point I just snapped and couldn't deal with any more math questions about parallel lines or the train leaving Memphis at 3:45. I figured something was wrong with me. I felt guilty for being so unproductive. Starting a company had been my dream, and, well, maybe I didn't have what it takes after all.

So I took a little break. Of course, if you're in course 6, sometimes "taking a break" means writing a poker bot. For those of you who don't know what a poker bot is, what happens when you play poker online is first, you sit for hours and click buttons, and then you lose all your money. A poker bot means you can have your computer lose all your money for you.

But it was a fascinating challenge. I was possessed. I would think about it in the shower. I would think about it in the middle of the night. It was like a switch went on — suddenly I was a machine.

In the middle of all this, my mom and dad wanted all of us to come up to New Hampshire to spend a family weekend together. But I really wanted to keep working on my poker bot. So I pull up in my Accord and open the trunk, and next I'm dragging all my computer stuff and all these wires into our little cottage. The dining room table wasn't big enough so I started moving all the pots and pans off the stove to make room for all my monitors. This time it was my mom who thought something was wrong with me. She was convinced I was going to jail.

I was going to say work on what you love, but that's not really it. It's so easy to convince yourself that you love what you're doing — who wants to admit that they don't? When I think about it, the happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball: their eyes go a little crazy, the leash snaps and they go bounding off, plowing through whatever gets in the way. I have some other friends who also work hard and get paid well in their jobs, but they complain as if they were shackled to a desk.

The problem is a lot of people don’t find their tennis ball right away. Don't get me wrong — I love a good standardized test as much as the next guy, but being king of SAT prep wasn’t going to be mine. What scares me is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.

It took me a while to get it, but the hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun. So after today, it's not about pushing yourself; it's about finding your tennis ball, the thing that pulls you. It might take a while, but until you find it, keep listening for that little voice.

Let's go back to the summer after my graduation, the summer you're about to have. One of my fraternity brothers, Adam Smith, and his friend Matt Brezina were starting a company and we decided it would be fun for all of us to work together out of one apartment.

It was the perfect summer — well, almost perfect. The air conditioner was broken so we were all coding in our boxers. Adam and Matt were working around the clock, but as time went on they kept getting pulled away by potential investors who would share their secrets and take them on helicopter rides. I was a little jealous — I had been working on my company for a couple years and Adam had only been at it for a couple months. Where were my helicopter rides?

Things only got worse. August rolled around and Adam gave me the bad news: they were moving out. Not only was my supply of Hot Pockets cut off, but they were off to Silicon Valley, where the real action was happening, and I wasn't.

Every now and then I'd give Adam a call and hear how things were going. Things were always pretty good. "We met with Vinod this afternoon," he would tell me. Vinod Khosla is the billionaire investor and cofounder of Sun Microsystems. Then Adam dropped the bomb. "He's going to give us five million dollars."

I was thrilled for him, but it was a shock for me. Here was my faithful beer pong partner and my little brother in the fraternity, two years younger than me. I was out of excuses. He was off to the Super Bowl and I wasn't even getting drafted. He had no idea at the time, but Adam had given me just the kick I needed. It was time for a change.

They say that you're the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. Think about that for a minute: who would be in your circle of 5? I have some good news: MIT is one of the best places in the world to start building that circle. If I hadn't come here, I wouldn't have met Adam, I wouldn't have met my amazing cofounder, Arash, and there would be no Dropbox.

One thing I've learned is surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard. Can you imagine if Michael Jordan hadn’t been in the NBA, if his circle of 5 had been a bunch of guys in Italy? Your circle pushes you to be better, just as Adam pushed me.

And now your circle will grow to include your coworkers and everyone around you. Where you live matters: there’s only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don’t settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle too — follow them. If the real action is happening somewhere else, move.

The last trap you might fall into after school is "getting ready." Don't get me wrong: learning is your top priority, but now the fastest way to learn is by doing. If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying and planning and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.

Honestly, I don't think I've ever been "ready." I remember the day our first investors said yes and asked us where to send the money. For a 24 year old, this is Christmas — and opening your present is hitting refresh over and over on bankofamerica.com and watching your company's checking account go from 60 dollars to 1.2 million dollars. At first I was ecstatic — that number has two commas in it! I took a screenshot — but then I was sick to my stomach. Someday these guys are going to want this back. What the hell have I gotten myself into?

You already know this feeling: at MIT we call it "drinking from the firehose." It’s about as fun as it sounds, and all of us have the internal bleeding to prove it. But we’ve also learned it's good for you. Today, one valve shuts off. Now you need to go out and find another firehose.

Dropbox has been mine. As you might expect, building this company has been the most exciting, interesting and fulfilling experience of my life. What I haven't really shared is that it's also been the most humiliating, frustrating and painful experience too, and I can't even count the number of things that have gone wrong.

Fortunately, it doesn't matter. No one has a 5.0 in real life. In fact, when you finish school, the whole notion of a GPA just goes away. When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing, it's getting too comfortable.

Bill Gates's first company made software for traffic lights. Steve Jobs's first company made plastic whistles that let you make free phone calls. Both failed, but it's hard to imagine they were too upset about it. That's my favorite thing that changes today. You no longer carry around a number indicating the sum of all your mistakes. From now on, failure doesn't matter: you only have to be right once.

I used to worry about all kinds of things, but I can remember the moment when I calmed down. I had just moved to San Francisco, and one night I couldn't sleep so I was on my laptop. I read something online that said "There are 30,000 days in your life." At first I didn't think much of it, but on a whim I tabbed over to the calculator. I type in 24 times 365 and — oh my God, I'm almost 9,000 days down. What the hell have I been doing?

(By the way: you guys are 8,000 days down.)

So that’s how 30,000 ended up on the cheat sheet. That night, I realized there are no warmups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Every day we're writing a few more words of a story. And when you die, it's not like "here lies Drew, he came in 174th place." So from then on, I stopped trying to make my life perfect, and instead tried to make it interesting. I wanted my story to be an adventure — and that's made all the difference.

My grandmother is here today, and next week we'll be celebrating her 95th birthday. We talk more on the phone now that I’ve moved out to California. But one thing that's stuck with me is she always ends our phone calls with one word: "Excelsior," which means "ever upward."

And today on your commencement, your first day of life in the real world, that's what I wish for you. Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward. Thank you.


Saturday 14 December 2013

驗證想法

坊間流傳一個說法,在月供日前,港股會被推往高位,月供股票人士往往會被逼以高位入貨,月供完結後,港股便會因缺乏承接而下跌…究竟這個現象會否提供一個投機既機會呢?

為了驗證一下坊間傳聞,今個月做了一個少少 paper trade,買賣規則就如上個月所想的:「於月供前兩日收市前半小時入 call,月供日午市前平倉兼開 put,月供日翌日午市前平倉…」

結果如下:

十二月份,月供前兩日:

9/12/2013 15:30時 恆指約 23800 (開 call)

月供日午市:
11/12/2013 12:00 恆指收 23448  (平 call -352,開 put)

 月供日翌日午市:
12/12/2013 12:00 恆指收 23318 (平 put +130)

 未計手續費,總共損失 222 點...

 Paper trade 下月繼續~

Wednesday 27 November 2013

十一月股息

過兩日收埋盈富基金果九百蚊股息,今個月會收到 $950 股息。

由於領匯提早十二月中就派息,所以下個月收埋領匯同宏利股息後,應該要餓息兩個月到 2014 年 3 月宏利派末期息時先再有股息收入了…(第三次中期息未到手已經望緊末期息,so sad... )

既然今年股息收入已大概確定,順便幫自己今年既股票收入做個總結:

2013 總股息收入:應該差少少有萬八,單月最高股息有九千蚊 (七月)
總期權金收入:約二萬四至二萬六,已計入因SP/SC行使價所導致的盈利/虧損。
最失敗交易:十月底 SC 6手11 月平保 @ 62.5,好彩係 covered call,只係賺少左(超過一年期權金收入!嗚!)



Wednesday 13 November 2013

十一月月供

又再一次月供完成後大跌,睇黎月供呢樣行動可以帶黎一個投機機會... 如於月供前兩日收市前半小時入 call,月供日午市前平倉兼開 put,月供日翌日午市前平倉…研究下先…


今個月月供約二萬蚊,除左中石油、交銀同電盈外,其他月供股票都已經擺脫潛艇行列... 早排減持左接近一半既宏利更加係比平均買入價升左三成以上…但由於早前期權接貨既平保同港交所繼續潛水而IPO 抽到既安徽銀行同重慶銀行雙雙破發,所以唔計股息及權金收入的話,以今天收市價計,成個倉係微蝕緊 2%,跑輸大市。

(計埋股息同權金就好 d ,回報有 9.5%…)


另外,十一月到今日依然無開過期權,感覺上跌既機會大過升,但在無心水既情況下,寧願唔玩住…




Sunday 3 November 2013

IPO

入左飛抽兩隻新股 (又係銀行股),睇黎我對金融股真係有情意結!

不過除左公司可以經 IPO上市之外,有無諗過將自己上市呢?美國網站 upstart.com係一個由包括前谷歌總裁 Dave Girouard 等人創辦的網站,讓有意者 (upstarts) 以未來十年的部份收入換取投資者(backers) 資金。現時絕大部份的 upstarts 都是剛畢業的大學生,所慕集既資金以償還學生貸款及創業為主。而除了能夠獲取資金外,upstarts 亦都可以向 backers 尋求專業意見,由於 upstarts 既成功會直接影響 backers 所作的投資回報,backers 亦因此樂意提供協助。

但為左集資,有人可以去得更盡!Michael Merrill 在零八年一月將自己分成十萬股並以一美元一股既價格將自己上市!而所有股東更可以在其獨立的平台上買賣股份並投票決定其動向,包括工作,愛情,甚至乎他應否做輸精管切除手術 (vasectomy)都交由股東決定!

Michael 呢個創新嘗試連知名網站 wired.com 都係今年三月做左一個專題報導
(http://www.wired.com/business/2013/03/ipo-man/all/) ,而如果有興趣買賣這隻(這位?) Michael 的股票,可前往 KmikeyM.com 登記,根據網站已登記股份,現時只需要獲得 2623 股,就可以得到 Michael 既控制權 (Michael 自己持有的股票並沒有投票權)!以其現價 ~10美元一股計(五年十倍回報!),二十萬左右就可以控制一個人的行動,其實真的有點恐怖...

Wednesday 30 October 2013

持股分類

今天難得放假,決定將在櫃桶底尋獲既第一張及唯一一張獲派的實物股票 (太平洋保險) 拎去證券行,見佢由零九年 ipo 到宜家既價、息回報都係非常雞肋,決定伺機套現。

既然人在證券行,亦順便加多一隻股票 (港交所)做月供。股票會以一邊月供一邊 short call 方式賺外快,順道拉低一下年初 short put 時接貨時的平均價吧…

現時持貨的股票大約可分四類:

較長期持有的月供股票 (佔約一半總投資):
8, 11, 66, 823, 945, 1398, 2800, 3988

月供並配合 short call/short put 操作的股票 (佔約四份一總投資):
 23, 388, 857, 3328

純 short call / short put  操作的股票 (佔約四份一總投資):
2318

IPO / 投機股票 (少於 1%總投資)
2601

現有股票以金融股份為主,雖曾經考慮將月供組合優化,但在未有其他心水股份下,決定繼續月供至年底再作決定

十月股息

收股息 $1900,再加 3300 左右期權金收入...

800 股東亞銀行如無意外應該被行使 @ 32,成交後應該會開番 12 月或出年 1 月既 short put @ 31 or 32


早前賣走 ipo 買既 2386,同 300 股已賺 20% 既宏利,套現接近十萬伺機而動 (兼預備交稅...)

下月股息預告:

恆生銀行 及 盈富基金 共約 $950




Monday 30 September 2013

九月股息

本月收息 $1575 (11, 23, 66, 945)

預計下月收 ~$1900 (8, 857, 2318)

如無意外,成個 13 年只係得 2 月係零股息收入,股息收入最多既月份會係 7 月,差幾蚊就有 $9000,全年預計有 ~$16000 股息。比舊年 ~$8000 增加一倍。希望出年股息可以去到 ~$20000,亦相信可以達成.... 如果唔買樓的話....

Saturday 14 September 2013

二零一三年九月月供

九月月供買入以下股票:
電盈,恆生,東亞,地鐵,領匯,中石油,宏利,工商銀行,盈富,交通銀行,中銀

早排收到稅單,睇黎十二月時要放返一兩隻股票黎交稅…

今個月應該會收番二千零蚊股息,減輕七八月時股票期權既損失。


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最近股票市場回暖,手持股票價值回升至 75 萬左右,期望能在明年七月前能突破 100 萬…

Sunday 25 August 2013

Buy experience, not material

Buy experience, not material

很發人深省的一句說話。但香港人所追求的,往往卻是物質上的享受,所以我對於我妹妹敢隻身一人往澳洲兩年,參與工作假期,我是很佩服的。其實我也想放下一切,去歐洲流浪,但人越大,顧慮也越多,看來這願望只能放於心底。或者待財務自由時再實現吧!

當然,在實現財務自由的同時,我也會每年放一次悠長假期,去一些特別一點的地方作一次深度(一點)的旅行。

今年暑假,克羅地亞之旅:

十六湖國家公園其中一景
在 Split 的 Diocletian Palace 巧遇的克國婚禮
因大浪問題,Blue cave tour 取消而改為 Blue Lagoon 的旅程


Wednesday 14 August 2013

二零一三年八月月供

新加入恆生做月供成員,今個月總供款接近二萬,共十一隻股票,感覺上多左少少,但要減持又唔捨得,哈!

如果以現時股息率計,未計雜費,現時持倉股票每年應可收二萬一千股息。如果將全部股票轉做組合中最高息的中銀 (6.5% dividend),每年可收股息會變成四萬一千左右。

以月供回報(連股息)計算,回報最好既反而係宏利 (+24.8%),跟住係工商銀行 (+21.3%),東亞 (+13.2%),最差係交銀 (-4.3%) 同 中石油 (-3.6%)

成個股票組合黎講,兩隻 Short put 返黎既都係深海潛艇,一隻平保 (-14.3%),一隻港交所 (-9.8%) 已經佔左絕大部份既損失,不過拉勻之前 option 賺既,呢兩隻 option 股都仲係正數既...

Thursday 8 August 2013

漫漫長路....

現持有約 60 萬股票,扣除約 25 萬借貸,資產值約 35 萬。

期待 2020 之時能有 30 萬收入一年。若以 5 厘股息計算,即等於 600 萬股票,即平均每年要增加 100萬資產,亦即是每個月 8 萬以上增長!以現時月薪 4 萬 5 千來說,看來真的不是容易的一件事!  

不計薪金,這兩三年的額外收入則只有股息及股權收入:
過去 3 年所收股息:

2011:$4346
2012:$7941
2013:$12410 (至 7 月底)

股權收入:

2011:$9831
2012:$22650
2013:$12400 (至 7 月底)

即每月約 $2500 股息及股權收入。

現時以約三份一薪資月供股票,每年能投入金額約 18 萬 ,如股息回報為 5%,則每年能增加 $9000 股息收入。以現時每年 $12000 股息計算,29 年後方可達標… 到時小弟已 60 歲退休了…看來如要能在 2020 前達標,股權收入要大幅提升方有機會…


向財務自由的一天出發...

書讀得不少,人工卻偏偏不多。望著香港樓市高踞不下,惟望能在股海中殺出血路,早日財務自由,在還能走能跳時環遊世界。

給自己六年時間,期望能在 2020 之前財務自由。