Archive for January, 2006
I Never Thought I’d Say This…
…but I miss engineers. Let me explain. I’m back in school, attending a local community college. While the school itself is pretty good, especially for the cost, many of the people there are not. Maybe I’m just used to hanging out with engineers and geeks, but I’ve found a lot of people in my major (business administration) aren’t really the kind of people I like. Too many jocks and people from the high school “popular crowd.” You know the type. The ones who care more about what they look like and what the latest celebrity gossip is than what a standard deviation is. Mindless automatons that try their hardest to follow what everyone else is doing rather than thinking for themselves. Sure, there are a minority of students that aren’t like that, people like me who care what is going on in class and not about getting their hat cocked at the perfect angle.
So This Is What Busy Is?
Between my new job preparing taxes, school, and monophasic sleep I’m so much busier than I’ve been in years. I’m hoping to maintain daily blog posts but I may end up skipping a few days here and there when I am very busy.
I’ve had cut back on the time spent watching the market. I’m still continuing research into forex and options. I just picked up an indepth book about the math behind options. I’ll post a review once I’m done with it.
End of School Week 1
Today marked the last day of my first week back in school. So far I’m enjoying it. Most of the topics are interrelated (intro to business, accounting 1, microeconomics) so that makes studying much easier. I think that all of the classes will improve my ability to evaluate stocks and currency which should increase my trading ability.
In: Education / Learning
Sleep Reset, Memory Lapse
It happened again last night, another oversleep and another memory lapse. I went to sleep around 11:15PM and woke up at 4:30AM. When I woke up the timer was sitting on my bed, physically switched off. I never turn it off since I just have to hit the stop button to end an alarm. I have no idea why I turned it off. I seem to have a lingering memory of waking up to the alarm, but I’m not sure about that. I had even set a second timer placed on the other side of the room. It seems I just ignored the 2nd one.
School!
In about 6 hours I will be back in college, earning my business administration A.S. degree. It seems quite strange to me at this point that I am returning to school. I plan on earning my living trading and investing, so why go back to school? Well, there are a number of great reasons.
1. Grant Money! As I mentioned in a previous entry federal and state grants are paying for my eduaction. Not only that, I’m getting quite a bit back for living expenses. I’m planning on depositing that money straight into an investment account, either in a stock/options account or forex.
In: Education / Learning
Polyphasic Dreams
I briefly touched on the dreams I’ve had a few times, but nothing in any depth. I’ve found that dreaming in polyphasic sleep is much different than monophasic dreaming. It seems that the brain speeds up the processing so that the perceived passage of time is much faster than real time. I will frequently wake up from a dream and feel like I’ve been asleep for 1+ hours. Even so, the preceived length of dreams tends to be much shorter than during monophasic sleep.
Downward Sleep Spiral
This weekend has wrecked havoic on my polyphasic sleep cycles. Since Friday I’ve overslept at the 2AM sleep. Saturday and Sunday were pretty much allowed. I woke up at my alarm and then fell back asleep. My body seems to really like the extra sleep in that time period so I’ll be making that nap 1.5h starting tonight. On both Friday and Saturday I reduced the frequency of naps to make up for the 8.5h and 6h oversleeps respectfully. Today I slept an extra 4.5h, so I’m only dropping my 6AM nap. I need to move back to my normal cycles. If I keep this up moving back to 4h/25min cycles could be hard.
The Body Wants What The Body Wants
When your body tells you something you should listen to it. Last night was my second extended oversleep due to missing an alarm. I took my 2AM nap late at 4AM and proceeded to sleep to 12:30PM (8.5 hours). Every time I’ve either not used an alarm or slept through it I’ve taken 8-8.5 hours. I think this is my body telling me something: that I’m not getting enough sleep. I’ve been practicing polyphasic sleep now for a few days shy of a month, so I think I’m through the adjustment period. The kicker is I NEVER slept through an alarm before in my life. The only two times I’ve done it were on polyphasic sleep.
Assets vs Liabilities
Assets and liabilities are probably the most misunderstood, yet most commonly used terms used to evaluate what you own. When you truly evaluate both you may be surprised how much money you unnecessarily waste. Money that could be going into investments is tossed away into our consumer culture.
First, let’s look at the common defination of asset and liability. Assets are considered anything of value that you own and liabilities are the opposite, debt or obligations that cost you money. Many people have the mindset that assets are good things and liabilities are bad. While by defination this is true, once you step back and look at both you’re realize it’s not black and white. You can have bad assets and good liabilities.
Forex trading update
I’ve been following the SuperWoodie CCI indicator for my forex trades, frequently entering during the early Asian session. So far this has shown to be profitable, with yesterday being the best so far (70 pips). I find that I tend to exit early when watching the 5 min chart for pullbacks. Right now that seems to be the only thing I need to work on with this strategy.
