“The decision to join the blogging community is most likely symptomatic of my first mid-life crisis. In any event, I have set up this blog for a number of reasons. The most important is to impose some discipline on my personal financial planning and money management. While I have managed to make a reasonable start towards saving for my eventual retirement, there have been significant deficiences in my progress to date. Budgeting has been weak (when done at all) and investing has been done in a manner that gives new meaning to the concept of “random walk” investing. Putting my investing and other ideas down in writing should help clarify my thinking. Failing which, I get to look back and wonder what on earth was I thinking.”

@ Kohti – Thanks for sharing … now, I hope this opens the floodgates for our other blogger/readers to share, as well.

PS You should publish in both English and Finnish, as you are clearly fluent in both and your Day Trading experience may help to provide you with a unique perspective.

I have a couple of reasons why I blog.

The first and most important reason is that once I have stated my goal to public and blog about it I feel more obligated to really work on it. I don’t slip from the goal that easily now that everyone can read how I’m proceeding. No one wants to fail in public!

The second reason is that as I educate myself on the run I also want to share what I’ve learnt. There’s a lot of information out there – other not so good and other great. It’s not always easy to to tell which one is which.

The third reason is that most of the information is in english which sometimes causes a barrier for a finnish newbie investors. Hence the reason to blog in finnish.