Aggressive investing

I have been wanting to start a blog like this for a long time, mostly to share thoughts with other like-minded investors. In my mind, the whole point of investing is so you can reach your financial objectives faster, and be ready to enjoy it sooner. We don't do this for greed because I don't believe greed really is a constructive emotion when it comes to investing. It leads to poor decision making.  I am a physicist by training, thus I prefer a quantitative approach to investment. I had the pleasure to work through some books on options trading last year and started trading options on my IRA account, and have achieve some very good results. Over time, I've come to realize that holding a portfolio of options is a much more effective way to grow your investment than holding stocks or mutual funds. This is the main reason why I call this blog the "Aggressive Investing". For most people, sticking their money in some S&P 500 index fund and collect 10% retu...