Oct 31 2009
On Wednesday, I blogged that the S&P 500 violated the 50 MA.
On Thursday, the market surged and I looked like a dunce.
On Friday, the market fell apart.
Yesterday’s move is not all that unusual. It is fairly common to see the market break down, bounce back up to resistance, and then collapse. I’m sure a lot [...]
Oct 29 2009
No peripherals. Power button to login screen time: 29 seconds
Add printer. Power button to login screen time: 32 seconds
Add webcam. Power button to login screen time: 35 seconds
Do any extra programs start up? No. Of the 6 extra seconds, 2 of them were added to the BIOS time and the other 4 to operating system [...]
Oct 28 2009
The last time the S&P 500 was under the 50 MA was on 10/2/2009 when it poked below the 50 MA on an intraday basis, but it regained the 50 MA by the close.
Today we had the S&P 500 close under the 50 MA (blue line) for the first time since 7/14/2009. In early July [...]
Oct 27 2009
This week I started working on my Ph.D. proposal. I thought it had to be a document on the order of 5-10 pages, but it turns out it needs to be more like 20-25 pages. Although I don’t need to propose until May 2010, I am probably going to have the document ready by the [...]
Oct 27 2009
Almost two months ago, I blogged what my ideal day trading morning routine would be. I recommend you look at it again before you continue reading this post.
Today I lived an even more ideal day trading morning routine. It went like this…
9:59 am: Roll out of bed. Turn on computer. Fire up trading software. And [...]
Oct 26 2009
…not one, but two girls offer to cut your hair for free because it looks so atrocious.
I’ve had pretty long hair before, at least a good four inches longer than my hair was today right before I got a haircut. Of course I’d get the usual suggestions from friends, male and female alike, telling me [...]
Oct 24 2009
The whole game of arbitrage is spotting who the asshole is. If you can’t spot the asshole — well, then you’re the asshole.
Source
Last week my day trading strategy passed my pre-defined go/no-go metric for devoting real capital. However, I have refused to do so until November 2nd. These extra two weeks of forward testing were [...]
Oct 22 2009
The other day…
Dude: Is [so-and-so] busy?
Me: Naw, he isn’t busy.
Dude: Really?
Me: Naw, man. Do you want to know how to ruin your life?
Dude: How?
Me: You get a girlfriend, that’s how.
Dude: Haha.
Me: [So-and-so] just spends way too much time with his girlfriend.
Dude: Yeah, having a girlfriend is like taking a 40 unit class.
The day following the [...]
Oct 22 2009
…I don’t know if it is tomorrow, next week, next month, next quarter, or next year…
…but this pig is going to die, and when it does, it is going to go down hard…
…and when it does, don’t come whining to me because I won’t care.
Too bad I’ll be a day trader and not have any [...]
Oct 20 2009
Last week I was pretty happy about my chip working even though I burned it.
On Sunday afternoon, I went back into the RF lab for 3 hours to set everything up for another test so that on Monday when I go in, the test setup would be ready to go. Now you have to understand [...]