Isoquant: A Repository

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29

Swyx — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:59:00 +0000

Dear Market: Make Up Your Mind. #
oh what a sweet, sweet time to be short QLD. #
Is the Stock Market Pricing In U.S. Fiscal Tightening? — Seeking Alpha http://bit.ly/a4znhN #
have a good rest, Seeking Alpha. You deserve it. #
Characteristically late to the game, the Fed is jumping in with a $45 cash bid for 3Par. Spokesmen for HP and Dell declined to comment. #
You can be my black Kate Moss tonight. #
TYLER DURDEN/ZERO HEDGE IS A PENN ALUM! http://seekerblog.com/archives/20090929/zero-hedge-unmasked/ not Wharton tho, that's for tools. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22

Swyx — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:59:00 +0000

Pushing paper #
Cute rule of thumb – rebalancing frequency should be 1/(VIX-10) months #
whoa there potash corp. do i short you or long you?? #
http://www.hsx.com/ #
The Treasury-Bubble Meme — Seeking Alpha http://bit.ly/aBIlq2 #
FINALLY UNLOCKED MY IPHONE http://www.iclarified.com/ #
"The wedding season in India begets torrential buy orders of gold. In the past 20 years, gold was positive in September 80% of the time." #
"Japanese salarymen, who were regarded as modern-day samurai, are today known as soshoku-danshi (wussy, unambitious “grass-eating men”)." #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-15

Swyx — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:59:00 +0000

Song lyrics these days: "Baby when you're down down down down down, doooown, doooown" #
Cause every mother's day needs a mother's night #
Bellace: "Its funny how Roosevelt had to go to Congress to get approval to join WW2. We used to check with the people. How quaint." #
GS predicts China gdp will be 2.5x japan in 2020 #
Am I the only one who runs away after pushing Flush in airplane toilets? Hong kong in 3.5 hrs #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08

Swyx — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:59:00 +0000

Statistical investing for the win #
And who does Mama teach, to mend and tend and sweep? #
[10:12:07 PM] Elizabeth Fong: noodling = the art of wrestling ginormous catfish #
Inexplicably glad that I switched from DBS to UOB. Finally a bank that makes sense. #
my first risk arb attempt – long DTG, short HTZ – did pretty well today. #
Was machst du gerade? #
Wow, GMAT tutoring is actually pretty fun. I just have to learn to be a better teacher. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-01

Swyx — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:59:00 +0000

"Static variables" is an oxymoron. #
Just a city boy. #
just spent 3 hours learning dance steps. for work. on the plus side, I can now dance MJ. #
http://norwegianrecycling.multiply.com/music/item/83 #
NYT: "one in nine black men aged 20 to 34 is in prison." #
Voting Behind Bars – http://nyti.ms/cuRiGM #
will be taking the Sept 2010 lv 1 CAIA #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-25

Swyx — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:59:00 +0000

Making the office a second home. #
I want nobody nobody but you *clapclap, clap* #
After using my IBM at work, I have difficulty pressing the Ctrl button instead of Fn at home. Curse your unconventionalism, IBM|| #
OH. MY. GOD. THE D IN NASD STANDS FOR "DEALERS". Come on! 2nd time in 2 weeks! #
I do not suffer fools lightly. #
same guy: "eh, NASD is which country ah?" Somebody save me, or save him. #
Ok, no more lan gaming for me for good. Team fortress 2 beats L4D2 #
Like this comment if you still remember when Sim Lim was a magical gaming wonderland with teenage prices. #
Yes, I'm sure, BP was involved in Scotlands release of Libyan terrorists. Well done, Congress. #
Crossing to the dark side: bought my first technical analysis book. #
Jamie Dimon's ridiculous Chicago home, unused since 2004 – http://www.luxist.com/2010/07/21/jamie-dimons-slow-seller-estate-of-the-day/ #
http://oldspicevoicemail.com #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18

Swyx — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:59:00 +0000

Yesterday I bought a $500 million hungarian forint note from 1944. It suffered an inflation rate of 4x10e23 iirc. Remarkable. #
yo mama so fat, she can hit and in a single push. #
Yo mama so fat, DOJ wrote her up for antitrust violations. #
Yo mama so fat, she drives an SPV. #
My elevator number still shows "25" when I view it in the mirror. I find this cool. #
OTC derivatives market is $615 trillion! #
Yo mama so fat, they renamed leptokurtosis to "yomamakurtosis" #
Is it fair that china froze all new IPOs to ensure ABC's success? Can corporations really ever expect equal treatment? #
Yo mama so fat she was supported by an implicit govt guarantee. Geithner deemed her TBTF. #
Off from work #
Its always sobering to understand that you are your parent's child – that the things they do that you hate are also instinctive to you. #
Wants to be in a flash dance mob #
Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain, telling me just what a fool I've been. #
can i have an install of windows, skype, ms office, itunes, etc that says "Yes I am a competent computer user and dont need your idiocy" #
I am hopeless with people and bureaucracies but deep down I so desperately want to change. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11

Swyx — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:59:00 +0000

why do they make the freezer stop when you open the door to get something? it's very sneaky. #
happy birthday, america #
OMG EVERY RECENT COPY OF ABSOLUTE RETURN + ALPHA AVAILABLE ONLINE http://bit.ly/aGRB6m #
Sweet Rap — We Got Acquired By Amazon http://youtu.be/bnCHCcveteA #
How can people in this industry for any number of years NOT know what NASD stands for?! #
I got my staff card today! #
A wizard's staff has a knob on the end. #
For you hedge fund types, check out http://tigercapitalmanagement.com they are the best in the business…PERIOD. #
LeBron James is 25, Taylor Lautner is 18, makes a grown man cry #
The Octopus IS psychic!!! #
Long singapore zoo, night safari, iffy on jurong bird park. #
My idea of wkend shopping involves evaluating the entire fnce section of a large bkstore & winding up with mark blade's "professional poker" #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-04

Swyx — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:59:00 +0000

Nothing is more absurd than seeing a singaporean correcting another's pronounciation at a toastmaster's meeting. We are ALL bad. #
Chuck Norris visited the Virgin Islands and now they are just islands #
Jack Bauer made Hellen Keller talk. #
"People say a way to a man's heart is through his stomach. I say they're aiming a bit too high." – quotes from last night #
Important question: who would win in a celebrity grudge match: Ken Griffin, Jim Simons, or David Tepper? #
The G20 Tees Up Another Crisis — Seeking Alpha http://bit.ly/dib7IA #
In Singapore you can just grab beer and wine off the shelves of any grocery store. Only now I find that odd. #
"There is no such thing as an equal distribution of jobs, or equal depts in any organization." Its takes someone like our trainer to say it. #
Is G/ARCH somehow not a standard model in other finance/econometrics courses? I get so many blank looks. The 2nd moment HAS to be stochastic #
I get knocked down, then I get up again #
the Angolan city of Luanda beat out Tokyo and New York to be the most expensive city in the world.. http://bit.ly/9Mlu0H #
why did we change our army uniforms to exactly the same as the US Army's? why so progressive in appearance and backward in regimentation? #
Reading the Mathematics of Gambling by Ed Thorp. A masterpiece in its own right. I wish I could get a copy of Beat The Market. #
Fixing Information Asymmetries — Seeking Alpha http://bit.ly/a2H40S #
you know you have a nontraditional investment book when chapter 2 begins: "The dry sun blazed down from a clear desert sky." #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27

Swyx — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:59:00 +0000

the montage scene in Up always makes me tear up. Animation so nuanced it tells the story of a lifetime of love. #
my bullish equities stance is paying out. check out DIA action – http://bit.ly/94pJbu. my call on the 16th: http://bit.ly/bqUwx1 #
people are offering "Fundamentals in Fail Management" courses! https://village.albourne.com/user/courses.pcg?id=1085&f=d #
my "no intraday trading" policy has cost me 4% potential returns in the last 2 days – when does one reverse a policy/make exceptions? #
whoops, that gap up didn't last. i have much to learn #
SMRT riders dumb enough to need 12 blinking lights and an animated scrolley thing to tell which side to alight shouldnt be allowed on #
My body is undergoing a deleveraging process right now; too bad the only cure is austerity, no self-sustaining debt deflation #
In the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. #
$;&+#@$%; my bike got stolen at kembangan mrt. Way to foul up my mood. Why pick my bike out of all those other bikes?? #
my gf: "Oh, i thought Singapore's PM was LKY and then Lee Hsien Loong right?" me: "uh, no, there was this guy in between warming the seat" #
You said goodbye, I said hello #
JAY SEAN IS INDIAN??!?! #
Listening to people talk about the enlightenment of plants. #