2019 ESL CS:GO Grand Finals in the Barclays Center. Image Source: ESL. There's a universal belief, from gamer fans to Wall Street analysts, that Esports is going to be massive. This becomes acutely self-evident during the Corona lockdown as inevitably we play more video games. Recently, I've seen an incredible resurgence of League of Legends … Continue reading Day 8: Riding the Esports Wave
I've noticed some glaring deficiencies with ThinkorSwim's risk platform. Relative to the risk ecosystem at my previous job, ThinkorSwim offers only a barebones conceptual understanding of risk. While undeniably UX friendly, the risk platform lacks some obvious analytics and un-intuitively organizes other risk data. Every morning when I start my trading day, I need to … Continue reading Day 7: Risk Tools
This morning's run metrics on Strava: 5.8 miles, 8:38 min/mi Morning runs never cease to impress me with how energized I feel at the start of the day. That being said, the hardest part of the morning run is waking up early. Given the current COVID environment, morning runs are the only outside runs that … Continue reading Day 6: Morning Runs
Within a couple months, I'll be leaving NYC for the medium term future. As part of preparations, I'm putting together a NYC bucketlist - hopefully I'll be able to cross off a few items. Reflecting on my time in this city, I realize that an abundance of memory-building experiences have all fogged together in my … Continue reading Day 5: NYC Bucketlist
The captivating covers of The Powder Mage Trilogy In the past 10 years, I've read a lot of fantasy fiction. Find any "best epic/high/fantasy fiction" list online; I assure you I've both seen the list and read 90% of the books on that list. This has always been my secret guilty pleasure. In my mind, … Continue reading Day 4: The Powder Mage trilogy, book review
Crazy week for oil - negative front month WTI prices and the near implosion of USO. Lots of retail investors started piling into USO, betting on an oil price recovery. Given the surfeit of "USO Bad" news articles, it's become fairly clear why a long term bet on USO is a bad idea. Here's a … Continue reading Day 3: My USO Chagrin
At Goldman, I observed that the closer you worked to markets, the more boring your personal trading account. Most folks on the trading floor (myself included) just jammed it into US equity, with some tech and crypto bias. A combination of trading restrictions and the zeitgeist of unbeatable markets leads most people to just passively … Continue reading Day 2: Options Are Hard
Hi folks, It's time to start writing a daily blog post. This will be good for me to 1) help track what I've been doing during fun-employment and 2) exercise my underdeveloped writing muscle. From a tracking perspective, today is Day 17 of fun-employment. The past two weeks are starting to blur together, despite my … Continue reading Day 1: Daily Blog Post
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