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My qual is on Monday morning. I know that there is a professor on my committee who specializes in antennas. My qual will be about a power amplifier and I don’t know jack about antennas. I just spent the whole morning reading about antennas so that I don’t fall flat on my face if he [...]

Bought 30 TWM at $115.66 Quick run up over $116 Stop loss at $115.95 Sold 30 TWM at $115.94 +28 cents on 30 shares = $8.40 Total round-trip commission = $10 Loss = $1.60 Man, that was a cheap thrill. On these kind of trades, you just have to put a short leash on it. [...]

Sold 1 DIA Dec 90 straddle for $11.52. $5.05 on the call, $6.47 on the put. Bought 1 DIA 104 call for $0.53 Bought 1 DIA 77 put for $2.39 It is pretty much it is a short straddle with an OTM call and OTM put to prevent the possibliity of unlimited losses. I can’t [...]

In an earlier post, I blogged about the status of my double calendar spread. I am a bit surprised that I have made no trades since I bought these two calendar spreads. Below is the P/L curve of my two calendar spreads. The difference between the November puts that I sold and the December puts [...]

Background info: I will be taking my qualifying exam soon. There will be three professors on my committee. I had to submit a list of seven professors from which they will choose my committee and set a time and place for my qualifying exam. I will refer to these 7 professors as professors A, B, [...]

I’m at a technical conference right now and today there was a career fair at the conference. My advisor was with me. Advisor: How’s it going? Me: The dude at the TI table told me to talk to the guy in the white shirt standing behind you. 10 minutes later… Advisor: Did you talk to [...]

1. I just finished playing Tribes 2 like there’s no tomorrow. Why? Because there might not be a tomorrow. Tribes 2′s master server is set to go down on November 1st. I’m sure there will be a work around, but just in case, I played Tribes 2 for a few hours tonight. 2. I’m pretty [...]