Nov 25 2008
Bought 30 SDS @ $97.93.
I really could have gotten a better entry.
UPDATE: Stop loss at $98.32. If I get pipped, I still walk away with a $1.70 profit after commission.
UPDATE 2: Pipped. Sold at $98.29. $0.80 profit after commission.
Oh well, at least it was better than my $1.60 loss last time.
Yay, I can go buy [...]
Nov 25 2008
It is almost comical.
I may do another round of buying in my Roth IRA.
Nov 24 2008
Stopped out of QQQQ position at $27.78. Had gotten 100 shares for $25.80.
Nov 24 2008
Here’s what I am looking at…
3 month daily chart
I am looking for a target around $29-$30. 30 day, 60 min chart is below. I think I may be able to ride this to the 200 period MA (red line). However, I really need to see more volume.
Nov 22 2008
It was fairly uneventful. I finished my qual in 2 hours, 5 minutes, instead of going the full 3 hours. Finishing early is usually either very good or very bad because the committee has determined that they have asked enough questions to make a decision. I thought it went well and given that I was [...]
Nov 21 2008
Dumped my IWM calendar spread for a small loss.
Picked up 100 QQQQ @ $25.80. I am going to regret this.
Mental stop around $25. Looking for a move to $28 or $29.
Nov 20 2008
I will find out whether or not I passed my qual tomorrow. For most people, in this two week window when you take your qual, it does not matter when you take your qual, you will still be freaking out because you don’t find out if you passed until it’s all over. So if you [...]
Nov 18 2008
I took my qual today and I believe it went well. I don’t see how it could have been any better. All the questions that were asked were almost like freebees. I guess when you do a good job with your presentation slides you make your life much easier in the Q&A.
Let’s say you are [...]
Nov 18 2008
I bought this about a month ago…
It is a presentation remote and I got it for my qual presentation. It retails for $79.99, Amazon has it for $54.24, and when I bought it a month ago, there was also a $20 rebate. I threw about $14 worth of coins into a Coinstar machine for an [...]
Nov 15 2008
Back in July, I blogged that I had a meeting with my advisor and that he failed me in a practice qual. I know my waveforms very well now, but I need to be very fast with drawing all the waveforms. It’s not easy drawing sines and cosines on the board, adding a DC shift, [...]