Even with exchange traded financial products there are “dark pools” of liquidity. These are sources of liquidity available in peer-to-peer direct transactions between institutions. This kind of liquidity is not necessarily made available via the exchanges…
New Home sales fell to a record low in July – much worst than even some of Wall Street’s finest guesses. So what, let’s bid the stock market up and rally baby!
On this day of celebration in the United States, I’m kicking back enjoying the day outside with drink in hand. And like any other July 4th weekend I can’t help but reflect back on the history of my country…
It has been some time since I last posted something to this blog. I’m embarrassed to say it was partly due to lack of motivation ever since getting back from my long overseas holiday back in January. Though I have been trading and trying to get back into a regular rhythm with Twitter, I haven’t [...]
This has been a very solid year for me all around…trading, socially, health, etc.
I’m very thankful for the year I’ve had and looking forward to doing it again in 2010. As I write this post, I’m going to be bringing in the New Year thousands of miles away from home in the beautiful Philippines. Experiencing…
Friday trading (yesterday) was lackluster…in fact, depressing. But hey, that’s trading. It’s a good thing I was splashing around with drink in-hand all day instead of facing the screen.
Spending the weekend in nearby Pennsylvania, I hit up Camelbeach (called Camelback during the winter). If you’ve never been there, you should check it out. Besides solid water rides they have a great outdoor tiki-like bar in the center of it all…
I’ve been playing the exciting game of paintball for about 18 years. I’ve gained a ton of life lessons and skills from the game…teamwork, strategy, tactics, situational awareness, honor, respect, level-headedness, good decision making, and grace under (literally) fire. Paintball has also helped me develop my killer-instinct.
Yesterday, I played at my favorite field – New Breed Paintball in West Milford, N.J. I was joined by a few friends who all recently started playing and have quickly become big fans of the game. I have a lot of fun introducing people to the game for their first time and hearing their stories post-game of all the interesting situations they experienced…especially, the thrill they got when they first tagged someone out on the opposing team by hitting them with their paintballs. Below is a short video clip of a game that was already in progress. The video is grainy because I didn’t have the best device on-hand for this and it didn’t help that it’s a bit shaky since I was avoiding having the camera hit by a wild shot:
If somehow you’ve been able to ignore the far right-hand bar of my blog’s homepage then you may not have noticed that you can follow me on Twitter.
I’ve made some pretty good contacts on there and so can you. Start first by following my tweets.
I actually talk a lot about trading in my tweets sprinkled with odd thoughts and random events that might be taking place in real-time. Every now and then you might be entertained or better still…learn something new.
Twitter is new for me. So I’m still learning how to best use it. Of course, if there’s anything in particular you’d like me to tweet more about feel free to let me know. Also, feel free to tweet me questions and I’ll do my best to get back to you sooner rather than later. You can ask me anything and I promise to think about maybe answering you back. Just kidding, I’ll definitely reply to you unless your question is obscene, offensive or mindless gibberish. I draw the line at indistinguishable animal-like noises.
Remember, you can find me at www.twitter.com/armchairtaikun
