ETFs and Options (Including Income ETFs): Concepts I Clarified While Mapping Investment Instruments

ETFs and Options (Including Income ETFs): Concepts I Clarified While Mapping Investment Instruments#

2026-01-25

To start investing “properly,” I think I should first map out what investment instruments I can actually use—before I even pick tickers.
But once I sit down to organize things, familiar words (ETF, options, futures, high-yield ETFs, etc.) can become surprisingly confusing. The concepts I thought I understood often feel fuzzy the moment I try to explain them clearly.

My First Personal Project with OpenClaw: A Bitcoin Auto-Trading System

My First Personal Project with OpenClaw: A Bitcoin Auto-Trading System#

2026-03-14

Hero image for the Bitcoin auto-trading system project started with OpenClaw

For my first personal project with OpenClaw, I decided to build a Bitcoin auto-trading system.

Investing is not a new topic for me. My original intention was clear a long time ago: keep learning little by little, build up experience through trial and error, and eventually reach a point where I would have my own investment strategy and be able to invest in a systematic way without being pushed around by emotion. But when I look back now, after well over a decade, not as much has changed as I expected.

Investments

Investments#

This section is where I gradually organize the following, from a personal perspective, to set my direction in investing.

  • First, build a map of investment instruments (cash equivalents / bonds / stocks / ETFs / derivatives / tax-advantaged accounts, etc.)
  • Then, verify and write down the parts that were confusing or unfamiliar
  • Over time, connect each instrument to “how I would invest in it” (principles / rules / portfolio)

Note: Posts in this section are personal study notes, not investment advice. (They’re also notes I want to revisit later.)

Taking the OpenClaw Bitcoin Auto-Trading System One Step Further with Multi-Strategy Simulation

Taking the OpenClaw Bitcoin Auto-Trading System One Step Further with Multi-Strategy Simulation#

2026-03-15

Hero image for the OpenClaw Bitcoin multi-strategy simulation project

A few days ago, I wrote My First Personal Project with OpenClaw: A Bitcoin Auto-Trading System, where I explained why I built the first version of the system and how that initial structure worked.

If that post was a record of building the smallest version that could actually run, this post is about the next step. This time, instead of watching a single strategy in isolation, I expanded the system into a structure where multiple strategies are simulated side by side on the same market data and compared against each other.

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