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Bought 200 TBT @ $44.11 in the premarket.
Market is rigged. My order got filled right when I cancelled it. Next bid was $44. Bunch of crooks.
UPDATE @ night: Here’s what I am looking at. TLT is at the higher end of the bear flag so I just had to short the long bond.

I probably shouldn’t [...]

Dream come true. I’ve been patiently waiting for this one for a long time.
Bought 120 TBT for $43.60.
Mental stop under $43.00
UPDATE @ 9:55 am: Long 200 SSO $19.67. Stop loss $19.38.
UPDATE @ night: Stopped out of SSO at $19.38. Manually got out of TBT at $44.45. Netted $24 on the day.

I have a project checkpoint due on Monday. My project partner and I are not done yet, but I am running off to Washington DC for the weekend and I am leaving him with the work.
It’s pretty much his business at this point. I don’t care about my grade. If he wants to care about [...]

Conversation with another TA today…
Me: What do you mean the professor wants me to give numerical examples?
TA: That is the purpose of recitation.
Me: Why can’t I just show the students a circuit and derive an analytical solution?
TA: I don’t know. Well, that’s what the professor said.
Me: Man, what kind of crap education is this? What [...]

I spent 12 hours in the undergraduate computer cluster with my project partner today. Man, I should have just let him do all the work.
However, I am quite thankful that he asked me to be his project partner, otherwise it would have been game over for me.
Because it took all day, and because I didn’t [...]

I am taking a digital circuits class right now. It is such an easy class and I am taking it for my course requirements.
The competition in the class is very lopsided in the sense that I am competing against a bunch of first year grad students. I say it is lopsided because it is very [...]

Bought 50 SDS @ $80.16. Set stop to $77.95.
Stopped out at $77.98. $109 loss + commission = $119 loss.
Well, I hate to lose money, but considering that I am a bear and that I’ve been relatively intact in this rally, I can’t complain.
I’m done trading for the month. Nothing is working for me. I am [...]

If you are a regular reader of my blog, you know that every now and then I will post something that is completely strange. This post is one of those posts.
The other day I was walking around in the supermarket and I went by the jello section. I couldn’t decide if I wanted jello or [...]

…I think you should spend 4 hours and listen to this audio series.
http://www.shadowtrader.net/educationArchive.html
Parts 1-10.
I’m listening to it while playing Tribes 2. I’m on number 4 now.
Pretty much the emphasis of this audio series is that discipline is most important thing, not the exact rechnicals.

For some reason you can probably figure out on your own, I get the following questions fairly frequently…
1a. What should I invest in? Should I buy stocks now?

No.
1b. Should I buy a house?
No.
1c. But if I want to make money, what should I invest in?
What’s wrong with cash?
1d. Why would I want cash? You [...]