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Dude: how are you doing?
Me: bored
Me: what do you do in your free time?
He tells me what he does in his free time, and sure enough, it’s pretty lame.
Me: ok exactly my point
Me: you have no life
Me: and neither do i
Me: why are we such losers?
Dude: i have no idea
Me: why?
Me: it’s 7:17 pm EST
Me: [...]

Game over. Why am I happy about this? This is why. That currency hedge was 20% of my net worth. Selling foreign currencies near the bottom for the US dollar = good exit. 10% win over 2 years, not the greatest, but I’ll gladly take it.

Up and away it goes. If you believe in [...]

Two pings off of the 200 MA (red line). One of these days, it’s going to blast through. If you’re long commodities, precious metals, international stocks, it’s going to suck to be you.
UPDATE on 1/28/2010: As long as it stays above the 200 MA, you’ve got to assume it’s going higher, much higher.

End of day [...]

I don’t understand the way people think.
Dude: You know what you need to do? You need to talk to girls more often. You need to go date girls.
Me: Why would I do something like that?
Dude: So that when you find the right girl, you’re ready.
Me: What the heck is that supposed to mean?
Dude: Look man, [...]

I don’t know if this is the end of this bear market rally, but the impulsiveness of the move the last few days suggests it is. If this was it, we could see this entire move come off in half the time, that is, we can see the S&P 500 back down under 700 by [...]

It’s really starting to look like I can wrap up my Ph.D. by the end of 2010 instead of May 2011. I previously believed that the only way I’d be able to get out early is if my advisor ran out of money but it doesn’t look like that will happen. However, based on what [...]

54 futures trades, $189 in commissions flushed down the toilet.
Total profit after commissions: -$2
This is getting stupid. I think I’m done.
By the way, the USD index is challenging 78.31.

I rarely blog about politics, but tonight is one of those rare nights I am happy to see a Republican win even though I lean left on the political spectrum. Tonight is the special election to determine Massachusetts’ vacant senate seat once held by Kennedy; a win here by the GOP would give the GOP [...]

It is somewhat ironic that I wrote the title of this post on December 24, 2009, but it has still been sitting in my “drafts” until now. I think I am running out of things to blog about. Because I now uneventfully run a day trading strategy, there’s little point for me to comment on [...]

Girls can be so mean in trying to get your attention. What do I do in such a situation? I be mean right back to them.
Girl: Hey, did you notice my hair? She then fluffs her hair. Her hair is clearly different.
Me: Huh? No.
Girl: You don’t notice anything different about my hair?
Me: Look, I DON’T [...]