Quanto Costa?

i'm back for like 5 mins...

2011-05-04T23:04:00.002+08:00

...just to say i'm going away again

taking a vacation back to europe. bunch of cities i didn't manage to make it to in 2009. finally, a break!

closed all my trades. performance is +16% ytd. not eye-popping, but at least it's not in the red!

alright i'm outta here bye.

who moved my money?

2011-02-05T12:51:00.003+08:00

so, i've been working for a coupla months now, and i'm sorta wondering where my money went.

a soft estimate for a budget breakdown (post-CPF) looks something like:
18% - parents
29% - alcohol / hanging out (but mostly alcohol)
07% - daily F&B
03% - transport
14% - cash balance at month-end
-----
71%

...

I was trying to account for the remaining 30% or so, and then i realised i'm squirrelling away all the money into the markets. It's kinda like the silly creatures that bury acorns for the winter, who then forget they have pockets of goodies stashed away underground.

then they die and someone else comes and sneaks all the good stuff away. whut the fack!

...

i also think that the alcohol attribution should be cut.

Jan Fx Performance

2011-02-01T20:12:00.003+08:00

Performance (Equity) 2011/01: +6.9%
Performance (Cash) 2011/01: -9.8%

God Bless Saturday

2011-01-23T18:52:00.002+08:00

We let it rock, and keep the drinks pourin'
We let it roll, until the early mornin'

Lunchtimes

2010-12-27T00:35:00.001+08:00

are not for meeting friends. too short to have fun. and you spend so much time travelling just to meet up. meetup over a drink after work. better idea.

merry xmas,

2010-12-26T02:51:00.001+08:00

but seeing how it could all fall apart

Trend Following

2010-11-30T23:41:00.005+08:00

The one aspect of my life in which I have submitted to being part of the masses is trading. Trend-following is probably the simplest way there is to passively siphon off cash from some sucker's account into your own. Especially for dim and lazy people like myself.

I'm sold. My deepest drawdown this year was about 50%. I don't know how I managed to claw it way back up to ground zero, before going on to turn a profit, but it happened. Thanks to the euro mess part I in July. Then QE2. Then euro mess part II over these few days.

30-pip moves? Pffft. Get out of town. Let's go for serious 200, 300, 500 pip action.

Btw my bloomberg terminal has been shopping-carted. By next week I'll have 4 screens in front of me force-feeding data into my brain at any minute of a trading day in the office.

After-Party

2010-11-23T00:16:00.004+08:00

One of the best things to do after a party is sit around with everyone else from the night before and piece together a complete play-by-play of the events. Puttingthe entire messed up story together from beginning to end with multiple perspectives is the most hilarious thing. Surely, it also helps to have a camera.

Life

2010-11-11T20:42:00.002+08:00

Treat every moment as if it were your last.

In the past weekend, I nearly died in a traffic accident that would have been entirely my fault.

"They say I'm cocky...

2010-11-06T15:58:00.005+08:00

... and I say what???
it ain't bragging motherfucker if you back it up!"
-Golden words of wisdom from Kid Rock.

On a side note, I'm evolving into an asshole. I'm not sure if I can pinpoint when it began to happen. In fact I probably can't even say I am currently evolving, because I already am one. What I'm doing is simply maturing into a deeper asshole. The phase I'm undergoing can sorta be compared to a puberty of assholes.

That makes me very happy. But also, time to halt this development.

Means to an End

2010-10-16T03:36:00.002+08:00

How would you feel...
if you finally landed the job you wanted since way back in freshman year?

Been getting away with too much luck all my life.

Take Profit AUDUSD Crncy

2010-10-14T00:18:00.002+08:00

AUD/USD pair has been on steroids in the past few weeks. It's now flirting with the all time high, at resistance set in July 2008, at a level above 0.99 to the dollar. Well think about it, this basically means parity to the USD. I think sell la. Enough profit already.

Pity the Fool...

2010-10-05T23:25:00.002+08:00

... Who isn't long on something right now!

Welcome to the 4Q rally, fool!

Drawdowns

2010-10-02T01:09:00.002+08:00

From a drawdown of 50% on my equity at the beginning of September, I managed to claw myself back up to square one by the end of the month. Phew! Longs on EUR/USD, AUD/USD and GBP/USD paid off. Shorted USD/CHF but this was stopped out with stop loss order (though while in the black, so no complaints).

One exciting month.

EUR/USD has busted 1.37. I dont know what to think anymore, but heuristic biases should be ignored; just follow the trend (though the gap from the MAs are widening like crazy).

The 2010 Bull Run

2010-09-27T23:51:00.004+08:00

Don't you think the fence in the Ferrari picture looks like Bloomberg auto-regression bands?

Supercar Saturday

2010-09-07T00:46:00.002+08:00

What money is spent on...

Office Badge of Honour

2010-08-29T02:03:00.003+08:00

It is disturbing to me that gout has become somewhat a badge of honour among the upper echelons in the office. It's the disease to have, if you must be afflicted with something.

Because if you don't have gout, you haven't been eating and drinking finely enough.

@#$%@^^%#%$???!??!?!?!?!

2010-08-24T22:43:00.003+08:00

I've been trading like a complete noob this past week!!!!!!!!!! I should be executed.

Pimps & ...

2010-08-19T00:20:00.001+08:00

... World Head of Research & Equity Sales.

W.h.o.r.e.s, get it?

From a decade back...

2010-08-14T23:44:00.003+08:00

My pals Shawn and Yunfei, who came to visit me in Hong Kong. Long way since messing around in an all-boys school, yeah!

Sigh, Singapore English

2010-08-10T18:15:00.000+08:00

Bad grammar undermines credibility...

Hit it for all it's worth...

2010-08-03T23:21:00.003+08:00

...Like it were a pinata.

Been bashing at the EUR/USD and GBP/USD for 2 weeks now, flogging every last pip out of it. Kept whacking away each time it retraced. Musta made something like 600 pips from the EUR/USD.

Now the EUR/USD and GBP/USD are ripe for a big pullback. I got my candies, I'm outta here. Turning to other risk currencies like AUD and NZD.

Smooth Operator

2010-08-02T01:46:00.001+08:00

"Oh my god, your girlfriend looks like an actress!! Very stunning!!"

Convocate your Head

2010-07-26T20:14:00.002+08:00

Contrary to popular misuse, the verb convocate has nothing to do with the noun convocation, that refers to a university graduation ceremony. So stop saying it like a verb, such as in the context of "woohoo I convocated yesterday now I feel like my IQ is 200", because it clearly isn't.

I'm going back to Singapore on Wednesday night!!!

All Summer Long

2010-07-25T03:25:00.005+08:00

Went and got a new camera today. The old one has served me well, but it's showing weakness. Someone told me people celebrate a first paycheck with a self-congratulatory gift (like a bag or a suit or a watch). I guess this is how I embark on the long and swirling path of consumerism--acquisitions, trade-ups, upgrades--that comes with disposable income.

Next week I'm returning to Singapore to officially mark the end of my undergraduate days with a convocation ceremony. Back for a weekend that'll pass too quickly. However it'll be good to go back to school, for old times' sake. More photos (with my spanking new camera) with the gang.

And then...
I have about 5 weeks left in Hong Kong. Quick, huh?

I feel so on top of the news these days. Maybe it's just the job, maybe it's a line my boss said at the end of our last day in the orientation week back in the beginning of June.

"I expect all of you to know the latest news. If I ask you what's going on and you can't tell me, I will fuck you."

Hong Kong, Jul 2010

2010-07-12T01:43:00.001+08:00

Right at home on the Avenue of Stars

World Cup Annoyance

2010-07-11T04:22:00.005+08:00

Among the communities that root for Spain in this year's World Cup, there are a ton of fucking morons that express their support for the country as "Espanol!!!!!!"

Now that just doesn't fucking make any sense. You should be saying "Espana". Espanol is a language. It's like screaming "华语" when you support China in the fucking Olympics. That's just retarded.

Just stick to "Go, Spain" if you don't understand what you're saying.

Guess Who's Back

2010-07-09T23:05:00.006+08:00

Internet's finally been set up. So many things have happened in the time I've been gone!

First things first:

Someone told me "six" doesn't rhyme with "dicks". That's just retarded. Rhyming has nothing to do with the ending alphabets being the same. Rhyming is about sound, you moron, and six does rhyme with dicks.
Spain is not going to win the World Cup final. The other PIGS of Europe have been booted out. I don't see why Spain should win, and allow themselves celebrations that would distract them from the more important task of fighting their way out of debt. And stop it with the siestas too.
I drink too much. I have more alcohol than blood plasma coursing through my arteries and veins. My piss is cloudy. I think I'm dying. Time to change my lifestyle.
Char my sweetheart and Bob my buddy came for a visit. It was great fun because sometimes, between having no internet and having nothing to do, I can get bored out of my skull. We visited so many places and shopped a lot.
Work's been fine. I enjoy my work. No complaints in this regard. They do like to stick the idea of money into our faces as a motivation. Notable quote: "The only thing we believe in is. Cold. Hard. CASH."
One of the reasons I got this job, was because my interviewer's assistant was in charge of screening CVs and shortlisting candidates for the interview. She went to Bocconi for a semester. So did I, two years after her. She made the connection when she sifted through the pile of resumes and saw Bocconi on my list of education institutions.

More to come. I've finally got Internet.

No Bullshit

2010-06-12T01:38:00.004+08:00

Hi it's been a good long while since I updated. Now I'm one of those faceless boring working adults driving the economy while kids in school uniforms run around and scream and lower the GDP per capita just by their very existence.

Wait, wait--did I say boring working adults? No, tell me I didn't. The first week was one gauntlet of social events and drinks night after night, wherein a typical working day started with me crawling out of bed at 0600 hrs to get to the office by 0715 hrs, after which I'd have lessons and training sessions all day till 1800 hrs, before going out with bosses and colleagues alike into the town to paint it red, shooting whisky and chomping cigars, and showing em all how we roll. And we roll till about 1 in the morning, so we can all head back home to hit the sack by 0200 hrs, such that the possibility we may be up on our feet again 4 hours later is not negligible.

Now I'm in Hong Kong. I miss the friends I left behind and the old life, but considering the old life was essentially but a primer to reach a subsequent stage such as this, in which a bigger goal and purpose lay, then I guess yeah it'd do all of you some good to move on too, and recognise the reason why we had so much fun, was because we knew we'd never be presented with such an opportunity to ever again. We always told ourselves to make the last semester count, and sure we did. We got the pictures and the videos and the stories to prove it.

Hey Char I love you baby please come over soonest! I need to show you off. ;)

Winning Hand

2010-05-27T00:10:00.005+08:00

Now, that, you sons of bitches, is what you call a full house. Read 'em and weep. I own you.

Haha Religion

2010-05-25T02:21:00.003+08:00

I've been reading more comics lately since I've got plenty of time.

In the comic book The Losers (now a major motion picture), one character quips that on any US bank bill you can find "in God we trust". Except God, in the real world, stands for Guns, Oil, Drugs.

In a Marvel series, one character tells Wolverine or somebody that there's a new virus that only attacks people with faith. So anyone with a religion is diseased. He then goes on to explain his immunity, by saying he has a problem believing in things that are not above himself.

That's why they call em comics. Good laugh, yet so true too.

Bad Company

2010-05-23T09:39:00.003+08:00

Eyes on the Prize

2010-05-17T09:08:00.002+08:00

This isn't some 10 week internship or some modular course in university anymore. There's no end in sight. You don't get to do your countdowns and scratch days off a calendar. The old guys call it the rat race.

Except, I'm going to fuck all of you other rats.

Right, Lam?

oh the irony

2010-05-16T04:33:00.003+08:00

Health minister Khaw is in hospital for heart disease.

But I guess, just as the education minister isn't the most scholarly, or the labour minister the most hardworking, it doesn't matter.

oh joy

2010-05-12T00:50:00.002+08:00

people are going for grad trips and soon facebook will be flooded with photographic fuckups like blurry pictures, lame high-contrast manipulations, retarded jump poses, top down angled shots of not scenery but dumb faces...

i could list all my photography pet peeves but it's not gonna stop the irritating updates from coming. i should 'hide' all the potential fuckuppers first so i don't have to suffer the trash they make the rest of us see in a few weeks' time when they come back.

imma spank you around like yo mama used to do, punk

2010-05-05T01:58:00.002+08:00

i'm going ballistic i can hardly contain myself it's time to flip out and kill the whole town imma be startin a bonfire tomorrow gonna pop champagne and spray the flames sky high and light my cigars with the fury of a thousand forest fires oooooooh yeah you can kiss this bachelor ass what up!!!

yuppie, an illustration

2010-04-30T14:50:00.004+08:00

from urbandictionary...

Yuppie: I've got money and you don't.
Man: I've got a dick and you don't.

this is all that's left

2010-04-28T22:08:00.003+08:00

i tell myself: if i wanna study java, this is the last of it that i have to do.

after tomorrow, that sumbitch thickass text isn't counting for shit anymore, though i think i will still reserve a place on my bookshelf for it, because with it comes programming nightmares. those fridays, those times i'd re-live for a laugh when i'll think back on the good old days when i was too curious for my own good and braved the computer nerd-infested waters of java, staggering out of the exam hall a beaten body covered in wounds, and on either side trembling hands afflicted with carpal tunnel syndrome.

but damn i'll be alive to tell the tale.

small brains

2010-04-28T06:57:00.002+08:00

sometimes, i wonder what goes on inside the skull of my guinea pig. i wonder what logic systems she has, and what her brain's capacity for reasoning is. sometimes she sleeps on her side, curled like a kidney bean, her rodent palms pressed together. what weird little dreams does her tiny mind conjure?

Retarded Student: Oversimplified Object

2010-04-27T03:14:00.004+08:00

public class RetardedStudent
{
//Retarded Student's variables
private int iq;
private int eq;
private int gpa;

//Retarded Student's methods
public void RetardedStudent (int iq1, int eq1, int gpa1)
{ iq=iq1; eq=eq1; gpa=gpa1; }

public double jobSearchPotential ()
{ jobSearchSuccess = 0.3 * iq + 0.55 * eq + 0.15 * gpa;
return jobSearchSuccess;
}
}

Welcome to the Machine

2010-04-22T02:52:00.002+08:00

Hundreds of students will pass out the back end of fifteen years of formal education within two weeks. Once cherubic, harmlessly mischievous and with souls so pure the deadliest threat they could summon was "I'll tell your mom", they now ride conveyor belts, like stale sushi, toward the yawning jaws of the machine.

cos smoking ain't allowed in school

2010-04-20T03:38:00.003+08:00

Salesman & Trader?

Quotes from an Interview

2010-04-11T21:35:00.003+08:00

"Well it's simple, if you just don't see yourself driving a Porsche in under 5 years, maybe you're not cut out for this job."

"Have you taken a look around our car park?"

"We're talking about 24 year olds who bring home $360,000 in bonus to their mothers. And you were expecting what, 1/10th of that for a yearly compensation? Give me a break."

"In a good year, salespeople made $6,000,000. We've had salespeople buy themselves a unit in Sentosa Cove, a DB-9, and go for a three week holiday, and still not know what to do with the cash."

"If you're wondering what I'm making now, well, it's safe to say it's not anything less than seven figures. Not including the cents digits, obviously."

"At the end of the day, it's whether you wanna be a BSD. You know, Liar's Poker? BSD? If you wanna be a hotshot, go for it.

-----

If I needed a way to stick it to the guys who think they've got the biggest balls around, maybe I mighta just stumbled upon it.

Goods & Services Tax

2010-04-08T15:01:00.002+08:00

Overheard in school:

GST = Good Sex Techniques

what it is that i need to do

2010-04-07T14:09:00.003+08:00

i can't graduate peacefully without leaving a legacy. i need to show people how shit gets done.

i need to muster the biggest F--K YOU double digits to the guys who think they've got the biggest balls around.

Trade Suggestion

2010-04-01T02:00:00.001+08:00

Long EUR/JPY

it has broken through a resistance level set in feb and tested in mar. looks like a bad ass move. EMA crossover just achieved.

buena suerte

Goalkeep-speak

2010-03-24T01:01:00.003+08:00

Buffon of Juventus is gonna kick your ass....

Gigi Buffon and the Italian male psyche:

“I’ve been called gay, a facist; I’ve read how my relationship is in tatters, I’ve been called a loser, I can deal with all that. But mess with my family and

we’ve got a problem.”

@$$ K-k

2010-03-23T01:35:00.004+08:00

I'm going to kick ass. I'm going to kick so much ass, it's not even funny. I'm going to kick asses like you've never seen asses get kicked. I'm going to kick asses so far they'd go one round around the planet and nearly hit me in the back of the head 3 seconds later, but they don't, because I'm such a professional I know just how much I have to hold back on my kick. When I kick ass I cleave galaxies in two. It's not everyday you see an ass kicking so epic that you fear for your own. I'm about to unleash so mega-brutally and I'm going to bring back the asses of a hundred thousand men left assless. You'll never look at an ass without feeling the twitch and the spasm in your leg ever again.

Motley Crue Friday Anthem...

2010-03-20T03:31:00.005+08:00

Girls Girls Girls

Why I want a Bass?

2010-03-17T15:52:00.001+08:00

Cos i wanna be bad ass.

B.ass.

critter twitter

2010-03-17T00:52:00.002+08:00

hai, r we frens

The Blue Caterpillar

2010-03-14T23:58:00.008+08:00

When I was a kid, one of the first instances of secondary smoking I witnessed happened in a scene from Alice in Wonderland (cartoon). The blue caterpillar took a drag from his hookah and blew smoke rings at Alice to ask who r u.

he was a cool guy.

now he's even cooler in the Tim Burton movie and he's been christened Absolem.

"Stupid girl."

Profit like the devil

2010-03-10T15:55:00.007+08:00

"Woe to You Oh Earth and Sea,
for the Devil sends the beast with wrath
because he knows the time is short.
Let him who have understanding
reckon the number of the beast
for it is a human number.
Its number is six hundred and sixty six."

-Number of the Beast

Iron Maiden

School Shoes

2010-03-10T00:43:00.005+08:00

I love being in school. It's fun hanging out with people you enjoy being around.

Now that I've quit Tommy Chevy's A-team at The Office, I'm gonna have more time to stay in school to study, practice Java, and savour the final moments of the schoolboy days.

p/s I don't like to wear socks, you can see that above. socks, ties and cufflinks are shackles that remind you of your place on the corporate ladder. i only wear all three articles for interviews. cufflinks are redundant. too many kids i see around in school wear these proudly. the ones with the bigger egos even have their names embroidered onto their sleeves. that... i guess is only useful if you go to the laundromat and don't want weirdos taking your shirt away without the security of being able to say 'check the name on that french cuff, hobo, now hand it back.'

No I don't wanna do extra work

2010-03-07T22:09:00.003+08:00

There was a time when I used to be the tough ass eat-nails-for-breakfast insufferable slave driver of any team, but now, now that I'm over the hill with the nutty little school projects, I'm no longer the one taking it upon himself to refine to perfection every line of a report or every custom animation of a presentation. I just do my part and pull my weight and turn in a good piece of work to the poor guy who volunteered to compile the report, and I kick back and relax.

It's fun. No need to stay up overnight waiting for people who can't meet subdeadlines so I can begin work, and no need to spend hours trying to rephrase unintelligible sentences written in the letter of English, but structured with the grammar of Chinese and fraught with the logic of imbeciles.

Hard Rock

2010-03-06T05:29:00.007+08:00

love this shot

Hey! Hey, Pound! Hey!

2010-03-03T18:21:00.002+08:00

The pound is getting its ass shafted. Shorted GBP/USD and longed EUR/GBP, but they're taking breathers now.

Speaking of currency hedging analyses, I dunno how to incorporate a CHA into a portfolio reallocation analysis, for a portfolio with unhedged, partially-hedged and fully-hedged assets.

btw i love my gf

Son of a puke

2010-02-23T23:41:00.002+08:00

Today as I got off the train to walk to my office, I had to navigate around a pool of puke someone had left on the platform. Booby trap for whoever slips on it and receives its full benefit. Work sucks that much, huh!

Recess week is nearly here. It's like cutting up that last piece of cake on the table into a ridiculously thin slice to act as if the cake can last longer than it's meant to.

Stuff to blow your brains out with

2010-02-22T18:14:00.002+08:00

Now here's some advice:

2010-02-19T21:50:00.009+08:00

National Hero

US dollar rally last night. Now really, that's what you mean by a Go USA! Would long USD against the JPY, but USD/JPY has been flat for months. Shorts on the GBP and EUR against the USD are paying off now. Reminds me of this joke:

There was a fat trader (usually they get fat, because big pay = good food, and also because cortisol, secreted during times of stress, encourages belly fat) who had a heavy lunch. He came back, and loosened his belt because his gut was enormous. In the trading pit, he saw that he now needed to buy back a position he had borrowed on. In the excitement and frantic gesticulating characteristic of traders, his pants fell to his ankles thanks to his unhooked belt. As everyone on the trading floor gaped at his boxers, the fat trader scrambled to pull his pants up. A wise guy goes "now that's what you call COVERING YOUR SHORTS!"

Yeah I bet you're scratching your head and wondering what's so funny. Get a brain! Morans...

Chinese New Year and Valentine's

2010-02-16T04:05:00.008+08:00

Happy Valentine's. This Armani tee hugs your curves just right ;)

Pip my ride

2010-02-05T10:20:00.003+08:00

When I checked my open positions and saw the USD dollar going through the roof I

JIZZED IN MY PANTS

OK but I have to take some advice from Nick and watch my defence because I'm fully loaded on six USD base/cross pairs and while my account is going north I can't afford to have it all rammed down my throat when the USD tanks.

USD/CHF

2010-01-31T17:07:00.002+08:00

Breakout on the USD/CHF through resistances of Sep '09 and Dec '09.

It's like those silly whacking games where you have to use the mallet to bash the critter on its head the moment it emerges from the hole. This is exactly it. USD/CHF is that critter.

Dude this is a joke right?

2010-01-22T10:10:00.002+08:00

Obama proposes to curb proprietary trading? Guess you motherfuckers aren't all rushing to go all Sales & Trading now anymore eh?

Which of course, makes Suckdick Capital Management even more IN YOUR FACE.

But nothing's certain; let's see how this goes and turns the financial world on its ear.

Movie

2010-01-12T20:44:00.002+08:00

If I stick a camera in your face it's because I'm doing a video collage and well, I want you to be in it. So don't shy away, give me a thumbs up give me a smile give me an up yours flip me the bird--anything. However you wanna remember yourself in college.

The Silence of Your Lambs

2010-01-09T04:19:00.005+08:00

Man these guys look like goofballs who just grow their hair long because it makes them look all metal and shit, and their band name is really such a wimpy one but dude when they do their show they blow your nuts right out of your ears.

Coming in April 2010. Lamb of God @ Downtown East.

Wall of Death, biatch!!!!!

12th Day of Christmas

2010-01-06T01:17:00.009+08:00

Boy, your soul betta' belong to Jesus...

...Cos your ass belongs to Chevrier !

Have a good stay Kenny

Let's Rock

2010-01-03T23:23:00.006+08:00

You bring the ass, the turtles bring the whoopin'

First working day of 2010 coming up. USD pushed upward at the end of last year. I'm unsure what's going to happen when the markets open after all the revelry, but I'm excited.

31st Dec 2015: Conclusion of The Great Turtle Experiment.

What comes next, is a fund that's gonna be called Suckdick Capital Management LLP. Chew on that.

BUTTERZOMBIES, & Happy New Year

2010-01-02T17:46:00.009+08:00

Only in the VIP. Buon Anno Nuovo!

Thanks to Char and her colleagues and friends, it was a pretty fun night. Easy as butter, smooth as a baby's behind!

It's 2010. Try to make this year count, if you haven't been doing much with your life in the past. The future is now.

WIIZOMBIES

2009-12-29T20:05:00.001+08:00

All little kids love electronics

COCKTAILZOMBIES

2009-12-28T01:46:00.003+08:00

OK Happy birthday. Tanti auguri.

CHICKZOMBIES

2009-12-27T16:15:00.005+08:00

After Christmas lunch at St. Regis: Feliz Navidad!

FEASTZOMBIES

2009-12-26T03:38:00.001+08:00

What I look forward to every Christmas.

XMASZOMBIES

2009-12-25T14:48:00.004+08:00

Merry Christmas, everybody. Happy holidays!

GUNZOMBIES

2009-12-24T02:47:00.003+08:00

AA205 (Risk management) is so gay we had to go play games immediately after the exam.

BEERZOMBIES

2009-12-22T04:04:00.003+08:00

Nobody wants to play Left 4 Dead II after drinks because a drunkard can't shoot straight and a drunkard who can't shoot straight is a shitty team player and a shitty team player gets everyone killed.

Through Hell & High Water

2009-12-19T22:08:00.003+08:00

There's no obstacle a big ass hydro pump can't clear!

Nick, it's time to evolve.

Heard at the Office...

2009-12-15T23:55:00.003+08:00

"There is no problem with the code or the model. After careful evaluation of your case, the problem lies between your chair and your keyboard."

"Outlook fucking crashed again??? I have to get out of here and get some water before this fucking computer flies like you've never seen birds fly."

Ooo Putain

2009-12-15T02:47:00.003+08:00

Spent a few hours backtesting a strategy that looked good for the first two years of trading, and then blew up on the third. That kinda shock, you certainly don't need in your life. Trying another that looks quite promising, and that appears more stable even in quiet periods. If there's anything traders hate, it's quiet periods. These moments of market indecision ruin equity quite quickly sometimes! Make up your minds, assholes, so I can then take the money from your pockets. Zero sum games. Someone's gotta give.

Kill a man, and you're a murderer...
Kill millions, and you're a conqueror...
Kill em' all, and you're a ... GOD.

Singapore Mercantile Exchange

2009-12-10T02:43:00.004+08:00

New playground is opening. Lighten up folks.

Dude, the future is so bright, I'm needing sunglasses to shield myself from my own glory.

I JUST GOT MY DATA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

R.I.P. Umaga

2009-12-06T03:02:00.002+08:00

Man this guy just died of a heart attack! (No fat jokes please) His matches and moveset were amazing despite his size.

You can't be right always

2009-12-05T05:11:00.009+08:00

EUR/USD, 1H, Today

Well! Down 260 pips on the EUR/USD trade I took a long position on. Can't win all the time! Just man up and move on. I'm finally getting the psyche right; I'm not even affected emotionally anymore. And that's another thing; your positions are prone to Friday night delights. Try to stay away on Fridays.

Gonna give this trade a little more time, it's near a pretty strong 1.4800+ support, and the RSI is brutally oversold. Otherwise if things have turned for the worse on Monday I'm getting the fuck outta there.

On a side note, Kenny said to short gold (look at tagboard), and look where it is now? Down more than US$50 per oz. Didn't listen did you? Yeah, I don't hear you laughing either!

Book

2009-12-03T23:15:00.002+08:00

When I finally write that trading book I've got in my head, it's gonna be titled "WTFx!!".

Turtle Brain

2009-12-02T00:55:00.011+08:00

Someone said, the only time you need a brain to trade successfully, is when you're designing your system. Once you've got your system and your rules, just be dumb when executing trades according to your game plan.

And that is the secret of all trading. There is no special rule. It is just discipline. Don't be smart, don't be creative.

As illustration, he then went on to say that George Bush, in an alternate reality where he weren't president, would be an extremely profitable trader.

Anyway, go long on EUR/USD and GBP/USD now.

Looking for Interns

2009-11-29T05:41:00.005+08:00

Have I really finally been handed the Holy Grail of all trading? Is this the zen moment of my trading career? I need to assemble a team to test some strategies, and put this into action soon.

There is nothing more precious than time. Because when you pull up in your Ferrari, the expectant crowd does not want to see a fat balding old bastard hobble out. Not cool.

Dovè KFC?

2009-11-26T17:43:00.003+08:00

I had a lot of Kentucky Fried Chicken yesterday. I suddenly remembered that there was none of that KFC stuff in Italy. Not a single KFC restaurant. (And less than 40 Burger Kings in the land of paninis) So today I decided to google it. It turns out that, even McDonald's at one point was close to pulling its golden arches out of Italy because all it was doing was opening up loss-making restaurants. If even McDonald's with its sprawling restaurant franchise experience was having a hard time, well, what of other American junk food? And Pizza Hut? Don't even think about it.

Today I also read about the prostitute whom Silvio Berlusconi had a good time with. She wrote an exposè about their affair. She said for a 73 year old man he had amazing stamina. He's also said to be a bigger rock star than even Rod Stewart was in his prime, just by the lifestyle choices he makes.

FC Barcelona smacked the crap out of Inter Milan.

Rich City

2009-11-20T03:29:00.004+08:00

The 20th and final Reventon has been sold to a Brit. Each of these costs 1 million Euros, or more than SGD 2 million. 3, or 15%, have been sold to Singapore.

Buy

2009-11-18T20:00:00.001+08:00

Be Right, Sit Tight

2009-11-11T03:28:00.002+08:00

Trading tip: Never, ever, ever give in to the temptation to close a winning trade early. Sure it's pleasurable to lock in profit. But why shortchange yourself! The traders who get rich are the ones who can be right and sit tight. Bye!

Back in the Ring, to Take Another Swing

2009-11-09T21:44:00.005+08:00

EUR/USD, Daily

Double bottom here, huge one. Slow and steady uptrend since March. This has been coming for a long time. Ride it.

You know how parents have grand plans for their kids to become doctors or lawyers or whatever? Or how kids have dreams to be maybe dentists or teachers or pilots or something outlandish like astronauts? You hardly ever see any kid writing English compositions about how they want to be bankers or traders or oil barons or CEOs. Why? Because Business is a dirty world.

But I'm going to make my kid a hardcore trader. From the day he can count he'll be doing mental sums about bid-ask spreads and holding period yields and margin requirements. Plus minus times divide? Are you freaking kidding me? Are you a wimpy kid or what?

Kenny Props

2009-11-06T03:13:00.001+08:00

I dunno what mathematics he did here but yeah easy to understand right? Do something real with your lives and stop chasing stupid ass jobs!

1 Life

2009-11-05T02:44:00.003+08:00

When resources are limitingly finite opportunity cost is at its ass-kicking best. I'm not talking about how many barrels of oil there are left to pump from beneath the Earth's surface or how much corn there is to go around this harvest. They are not that limitingly finite.

When you have only one life, what do you do?

Career applications are such philosophical exercises; you can't even begin to understand what thoughts those behavioural/competency questions stir up in you even when you bullshit about how you're so suited for energy trading or how you're the perfect candidate to be the next generation leader or how you are so focused and single-minded about your desired position yet you use the same old shitty catch phrases for every application diverse as they are.

Today in the office the boss wasn't in, so when the sun went down and all was dark, I reached for his laser pointer, stood by the window, and started pointing at the people on the street for a laugh.

Car Challenge

2009-10-30T00:03:00.003+08:00

Guowei says that if I do this to my Porsche, he will do a similarly-styled bodywork for his Ferrari in a Doraemon theme.

It's all about Control

2009-10-28T23:27:00.004+08:00

Ctrl: the usefulness of which you cannot even begin to understand.

+ PgUp/PgDn
+ Shift+Enter
+ Tab
+ Up/Down/Left/Right
+ Shift
+ d
+ s
+ c/v
+ b/i/u
+ scroll
+ Alt+Del
+ Freak

Stop reaching for your mouse instinctively like the old folk grab for their walking sticks!

Pound this Shawty

2009-10-13T00:30:00.004+08:00

EUR/GBP, 30m, Today

Short this shit right now for a quick buck.

Sticks and stones may break my bones...

2009-10-06T01:24:00.006+08:00

... But words will never hurt me! (so you think)

The daily assault interns in the research office endure:

1) This is just retarded, right?

2) You don't know this? You guys are f'king joking, right?

3) I thought you're university students? I learnt this in 10th grade!

4) Why are you so slow? I hate slow people.

5) You, and you: Am I looking at two hiring mistakes in front of me?

6) Why's the data wrong? Is it sheer stupidity or sabotage?

7) If I produced this work, I'll be ashamed! Embarrassed! Mortified!

8) So I'm looking at this shit, and I'm thinking one of you has low IQ.

Man I can't wait to spring out of bed just to go to work each morning!

Re-Cess

2009-10-04T18:02:00.004+08:00

Recess is composed of two parts; 'Re', as a prefix, and 'Cess', as in 'Shit'. Put it together and of course you get 'Shit happening all over again'.

Rabbit and Guinea Pig at a casual dinner

It's Race Day, Sucka

2009-09-27T17:32:00.006+08:00

Courtesy of Yiling, who shot this thru some ring she found

It's been more than a year since those days at 4 Robinson Road

Ferrari-red Hot

Too Fast, Too Fast for Love

2009-09-26T03:50:00.007+08:00

For as long as Singapore has the F1 night race contract, I think Char and I will be there every year. Pretty good fun! Best way to kick off a school break too. Need a Ferrari flag for next year. Maybe it'll be good to pick one up from Italy when I visit again!

Meet the Basterds

2009-09-23T00:18:00.002+08:00

We ain't in the girlfriend-sharin' bidness. We're in the ass-kickin' bidness. And cousin, business is a-boomin'!

Thanks for the support, guys. I think he dried up in fear and wilted already.