Dec and Jan are becoming very expensive months. Been snowboarding 6 times already, mostly at big bear. Getting my jumps down. A least the landings. No awesome tricks yet. But slowly building confidence with higher and higher jumps. Can go off a mid size jump with some air time now. Started school too. gonna be a busy winter.
Iono bout the market. Gonna see how 2010 plays. Buy on the dip? iono yet.
Monday, 25 January 2010
Monday, 4 January 2010
The Holidays.
Recap on my holidays. Christmas break was spent in Vegas. Pretty expensive. I suck at gambling. But lots of free drinks. New years went to big bear mountain and snowboarded for 4 days. No fresh powder, but no crowds. Getting my jumps and landings a lot better. Still sore from that trip.
In the market... what a gain today. wow. Totally not expecting that. Scared out of shorting. But iono how the market gonna keep on going up like this. Well starting school soon, so going to hit the books pretty soon.
In the market... what a gain today. wow. Totally not expecting that. Scared out of shorting. But iono how the market gonna keep on going up like this. Well starting school soon, so going to hit the books pretty soon.
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
option play
Holidays are here meaning no volume in the markets. Everybody is taking it easy. Bout to spend the break in Vegas with family. Anyways trying to close some positions and take some profits before the new year. Hopefully hit some limit orders tomorrow with BAK, and AAPl.
Thinking about an options trade right now. The s&p 500 has been trading in somewhat of a range, with the ceiling a 1121. Thinking about making a straddle option play on SPY, hoping for some volatility at the start of the new year. Everyone's been saying once we break out of the trading ranges, whatever direction we go in, it should be a big move. So I'm gonna position myself with a Feb straddle. Somewat cheap and should be enough time for the markets to chose wat direction to go in.
happy holidays.
Thinking about an options trade right now. The s&p 500 has been trading in somewhat of a range, with the ceiling a 1121. Thinking about making a straddle option play on SPY, hoping for some volatility at the start of the new year. Everyone's been saying once we break out of the trading ranges, whatever direction we go in, it should be a big move. So I'm gonna position myself with a Feb straddle. Somewat cheap and should be enough time for the markets to chose wat direction to go in.
happy holidays.
Saturday, 12 December 2009
the holidays
Got a new game last week. Dragon age origins. Haven't stop playing since. Have a spell caster, warrior and rogue on it. Beat the story with the rogue so far. Haven't played a fun rpg since the last final fantasy. Getting save some money, cause all I do is play that game.
Got a lot of days off in Dec. Got half days 3 day weekends. Battalion, company, plt Christmas parties. Vegas for Christmas, and big bear for new years!!
Monday, 16 November 2009
Market Commentary/rant
Seems like everybody's a genius nowadays with the stock market only going up. Every pick seems to go up. Whether it tech, financials, autos, etc. No seems to be wrong. This sharp rally getting be a little worried. The new lows of the dollar is getting me worried.
I'm not a genius. But this probably can't go on too much longer. I know, I know... Bernake printing press is flooding the world with dollars. But the way I see it is: The dollar can't fall that much more. There's a lot off commodities that go off it, other countries exports, world reserve currency. The dollar droping so low is bad for the global economy. Also looking at the chart for the dow. The rally been really sharp. The rate it's going it make new highs sometime in 2010. Yeah right.. with 10% unemployment. It doesn't make any sense.
I'm slowly closing my positions. It's an uneasy position. Thinking about opening into commodities more in the coming months. Along with the usual metals, I was thinking agriculture too. Also closing more short position.
Holidays coming up again. Usually bullish month too.
I'm not a genius. But this probably can't go on too much longer. I know, I know... Bernake printing press is flooding the world with dollars. But the way I see it is: The dollar can't fall that much more. There's a lot off commodities that go off it, other countries exports, world reserve currency. The dollar droping so low is bad for the global economy. Also looking at the chart for the dow. The rally been really sharp. The rate it's going it make new highs sometime in 2010. Yeah right.. with 10% unemployment. It doesn't make any sense.
I'm slowly closing my positions. It's an uneasy position. Thinking about opening into commodities more in the coming months. Along with the usual metals, I was thinking agriculture too. Also closing more short position.
Holidays coming up again. Usually bullish month too.
Monday, 26 October 2009
strange weekend
Got my car fixed. And went down to San Diego for the weekend. Went to visit a friend who's now stationed on Mirmar. Got together with some other people from our old unit and went out to pacific beach. This is the weird part. One of the Marines from my old unit was my old Sgt. Sgt Gentry. Man, da was really akward. Didn't really get along with dat guy back in oki. He was always yelling at me, and I was always embrassing or pissing him off. I would have never thought I would see him again
But we ended up drinking together. Different person off duty. Had a pretty good time. He trying go cougar hunting, and I was winging for him. It didn't work out that good, he was acting pretty stupid drunk, (I wasn't acting that good ethier tho.) But it was some pretty funny stuff that night.
Woke up on Sunday at someone's house. A friend of a friend, i guess. Went to play some flag football down at ucsd with some harvest kids. had a good time. legs are feeling sore from all the sprinting. Also hurt my shoulder somehow during the weekend. But yeah, next weekend halloween.
But we ended up drinking together. Different person off duty. Had a pretty good time. He trying go cougar hunting, and I was winging for him. It didn't work out that good, he was acting pretty stupid drunk, (I wasn't acting that good ethier tho.) But it was some pretty funny stuff that night.
Woke up on Sunday at someone's house. A friend of a friend, i guess. Went to play some flag football down at ucsd with some harvest kids. had a good time. legs are feeling sore from all the sprinting. Also hurt my shoulder somehow during the weekend. But yeah, next weekend halloween.
Monday, 19 October 2009
weekend
Had a mixed weekend. Went down to pacific beach on friday night. Then down to Imperial beach the same night. Woke up on Sat and my car wouldn't start. Had it towed to the nearest dealer and went to enterprise to rent something to drive for the rest of the week. Enterprise ran out of cars and I got a truck. Nisan Frontier truck.
It's really fun to drive. Never knew trucks could go that fast. I think it might even be an V8. Sucks a turning, but rumbles pretty deep, and acclerates pretty fast. Anyways hopefully I get my car fixed pretty soon.
It's really fun to drive. Never knew trucks could go that fast. I think it might even be an V8. Sucks a turning, but rumbles pretty deep, and acclerates pretty fast. Anyways hopefully I get my car fixed pretty soon.
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