Swimming against the current

Nothing much interesting today. I had some major internet connectivity issues, blinder than a sonar-less bat. I think morse code would have worked faster. Anyway I took 2 trades, both on the short side as early morning it all looked pretty bearish. And then the buying kicked in. CAM didn’t work out right after entry […]

links for 2008-01-31

Comfort Food in Hong Kong - New York Times
“The lesson book says that a jau ga is a restaurant. But then it says jau lau also means restaurant?” - did he also learn also how to say: “yuck! too much salt and oil!” ?
(tags: HongKong Travel Food)

מעריב nrg - ועדת וינוגרד: צה”ל גילה חולשה במלחמה […]

Futures

As you must know, futures are all the rage now since “everyone” started trading it ;-) And I want to be like “everyone” :-) Actually the real reason is that good opportunities in stocks trading were far and few between for my trading style in the last few weeks which was a bit frustrating (on […]

HTCH short - scratched

It was quiet all the way till the FOMC meeting, I shorted HTCH in the morning and waited to see where the market will go. It initially went my way but then the market started to rally. I didn’t wait to see if it will hold or stop out and scratched it instead at BE. […]

Food in Asia

I was just reading an article about comfort food in Hong Kong and the following vivid description:
When nothing else will do but a slab of airy white bread toast
slathered with bricks of butter, garnished with condensed milk. Or a
bowl of soup filled with instant noodles and rubbery fish balls.
got me thinking about the kinds of […]

links for 2008-01-30

ABC News: Gain Up To 9 Years Just By Exercising
The study found people who exercised vigorously 3 hours each week had longer telomeres and were biologically 9 years younger than people who did under 15 minutes.
(tags: Exercise Health)

Geekery Time: Vista-ish look and Backups

It’s been a long time since I posted anything techie here. I had some time to play around with my laptop end of last week and set up a few things, all a la cheap, i.e. only using free stuff. Maybe this will be useful to someone.
1. Visual - I had a chance to use […]

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