Nov 25 2009
I won’t be able to blog for the next few days so there are some things I would like to say.
Research
I have a paper deadline on January 5th. The paper is 90% done if the measurement results are not included. All I need to do between now and the middle of December when I fly [...]
Nov 23 2009
Cast: Me and two other grad students
Setting: Dinner
Me: [Grad student #1], did I ever tell [Grad student #2] about the impedance matching joke?
GS1: No.
Me: Okay. Do you know what not to say to a girl?
GS2: What?
Me: “Hey, let’s go do some complex conjugate impedance matching.”
GS2: She wouldn’t understand it anyway.
Me: But you get the joke, [...]
Nov 22 2009
I just had a friend e-mail me.
Take a look at what is said about the Fed in this article!
The Fed has the ability to create money out of thin air.
Fed officials are not paid with money appropriated by Congress.
The Fed “kind of sits out there – not in the executive branch, not in the legislative [...]
Nov 22 2009
I am not a coffee drinker. I think it is financially irresponsible to blow money on coffee in a coffee shop every single day. People who are regular coffee drinkers should go make their own coffee and also get more sleep.
However, over the last two weeks my perception of the value of coffee has changed. [...]
Nov 20 2009
It has now been 3 weeks (15 trading days) since I’ve started day trading the opening bell. Tell me what is wrong with this picture.
Week 1
Monday: Loss
Tuesday: Win
Wednesday: Win
Thursday: Loss
Friday: Win
Net points: -0.5 (-$25)
Commission flushed down the toilet: $35
Week 2
Monday: Loss
Tuesday: Win
Wednesday: Win
Thursday: Loss
Friday: Win
Net points: -0.75 (-$37.50)
Commission flushed down the toilet: $35
Week 3
Monday: Loss
Tuesday: [...]
Nov 20 2009
A week ago, I blogged about playing poker. I went from $3,000 fake chips to $102,000 fake chips and then I pissed it all away.
Guess what? All of it came back in a single day. I now have $120,000 chips.
My mother is going to kill me when she reads this.
Nov 15 2009
That’s how I feel now.
$600 down the drain on a notebook.
It just had to be done. The itch was too great and I just had to scratch. I saw value in what I was getting for $600 so I went for it.
I was really itching to spend up to $950, but I figured that the [...]
Nov 14 2009
Day trading update
It has been two weeks or ten trading days since I started day trading. So far I’ve netted -1.25 points on the ES which comes out to a $62.50 loss, and I’ve also blown $70 on commissions for a total loss of $132.50. Although this result is slightly disappointing and is on the [...]
Nov 12 2009
You know how at the end of every semester everything just goes completely crazy? I remember when I was an undergrad, the crush of class projects and finals in the last few weeks always felt the same each and every time.
However, I’ve noticed that in grad school, the pressure of the last few weeks of [...]
Nov 11 2009
Source: Forbes
1. Barack Obama (USA)
2. Hu Jintao (China)
3. Vladamir Putin (Russia)
4. Ben Bernanke (Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
5. Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google)
6. Carlos Slim Helu (Telmex)
7. Rupert Murdoch (News Corp.)
8. Michael T. Duke (Walmart)
9. Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Saud (Saudi Arabia)
10. William Gates III (Microsoft)
If you’ve been reading my blog, you know [...]