A few events happened in recent times that lead me to question the track I am taking. Two good friends from my investment club at school have now left sellside, one to join a relatively unknown but specialized fund, the other to a shop held in deep awe by anyone who knows anything about value [...]
Today was one of the worst days yet in my brief career so far. Everything that went wrong did, and worse, things that could never ever go wrong decided to rear up and throw this novice rider off just for the hell of it. Every risk I took failed. Every initiative I made backfired. Every [...]
Now does principal component analysis and a bunch of other pseudoMatlab features. http://shawn1.com/downloads
This week I got more in control of work and moved the P&L/risk management accounting project I have been working on to about 80-90% complete. which is a relief. I have not worked on any trading models since I completed BackTestr but I have started running one live with AGG. At an army buddies dinner [...]
My work cycle goes: breakfast train slow STRESS lull STRESS stress stress STRESS. STRESS. done lunch stress free free free free stress dinner free free free aircon switches off; get fan out free free free taxi home rinse and repeat, each weekday.
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