Origins of Our Blog Title

We decided to call our blog “The Underground Investor”, because not only do we invest in ways contrary to the thundering sheep herd but we also pride ourselves in being the anti-Wall Street blog. In essence, we provide investment news that you won’t hear in the mainstream media, with a dose of zen and martial arts.

In martial arts, for one to become a superior martial artist there must be harmony between shin (mind), wasa (technique) and tai (body). As a younger martial artist, like most young men, I tended to overcompensate technique with strength. However, as I learned more, despite my strength, I relied more on mind and technique. In reality, a proper mind is the most important of the triumvirate of mind, body, and technique in developing superior martial arts skills.

In investing, a sharp mind is the most important to success. Individual investors are bombarded with an enormous amount of deception when confronted with investment decisions. The overwhelming number of global investment houses deceive investors regarding universally accepted but fraudulent investment myths such as efficient markets, the Modern Portfolio Theory of diversification, and so on. Governments all across the world spread deception about their nation’s fiscal strength in the form of “official” federal economic reports. That is why the Kanji that occupies the top banner of our investment blog means “Zen shin”. In investing, without harmony between shin (mind), wasa (investment strategies) and tai (the body of knowledge one uses to make their investment decisions), failure is imminent. Our aim is to train the investor to train shin (the mind) to utilize knowledge – not common knowledge, but knowledge gained only by digging deep down the rabbit hole – to make superior investment decisions that will create substantial wealth.