In a recent post (“Lessons from Instapaper on app pricing”), I wrote:
I’ve noticed something similar, when I’ve lowered prices on the Portfolio Armor iOS app on a couple of occasions (most recently, earlier this week). For example, I dropped the price of the app from $28.99 to $19.99 for 25 hours starting at 11pm Tuesday [...]
On 05.06.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Economics, Musings memories and observations, Politics, Speculations, Technology, hedging, by David Pinsen
A couple of columns worth reading on the Bin Laden aftermath:
– Victor Davis Hanson: “Bin laden Fallout”
– Christopher Hitchens: “Death of a Madman”
A profile of a manufacturing entrepreneur in Britain, via the FT:
– “A Bastion of British Engineering”.
A couple of brief excerpts:
I started this business in a one-car garage with [...]
Marco Arment’s post last week (“Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation”) resonated with me based on my recent experiences with Portfolio Armor. A few excerpts, followed by comments by me.
Last fall, I conducted an experiment: I quietly removed Instapaper Free from the App Store for three days, leaving only the full, $4.99 Instapaper [...]
These two screen caps were taken from AppShopper.com earlier today. The first shows that, among the top 200 paid finance iOS apps, Portfolio Armor had the highest rating; the second shows that Portfolio Armor was the 32nd highest-grossing finance iOS app.
Thanks to those of you who downloaded the app — I’m gratified to see that [...]
On 04.22.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Investing, Long positions, Market Neutral Investing, Pairs trades, Short Selling, Short positions, Technology, by David Pinsen
– Thursday was a good day for new Portfolio Armor subscriptions. It may also be a good time to consider hedging, since volatility (as measured by the VIX) is near its 2-year lows. That’s a point I made in a couple of Seeking Alpha articles this week, Hedging the Dow: An Update, and Another [...]
On 04.14.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Investing, Musings memories and observations, Technology, U.S. economy, hedging, by David Pinsen
- A few more articles of mine published on Seeking Alpha this week:
Does Downside Protection for Precious Metals ETFs Make Sense?
Peter Thiel and the Higher Education Bubble
Did 9/11 Delay an Economic Day of Reckoning?
- As of yesterday (there’s a day lag on reporting), we sold more than twice as many Portfolio Armor iOS apps this [...]
On 04.08.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Musings memories and observations, Technology, hedging, by David Pinsen
From an e-mail exchange this morning:
I’m trying to learn how to purchase “portfolio insurance” for the crazy world we’re living in. I think the Portfolio Armor page just showed up in my Google searches. Portfolio Armor is exactly what I need to give me some confidence that I’m buying the right [...]
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