This week started off rather early with a 9:00am Econ Orientation Session. I ended up getting a free lunch out of it, so waking up early on a Monday morning wasn’t all too bad! After Orientation I headed into downtown to look for a job, ending my search with a couple of possibilities. I’m not [...]
Late yesterday afternoon Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) introduced a piece of legislation dubbed “The Startup Visa Act.” With support from over 100 US venture capital and angel investors (including top players Y Combinator and Foundry Group), The Startup Visa Act represents a step in the right direction towards proper immigration reform. The [...]
Sooner or later most of the large social networking sites are going to come to the sad realization that they grew too fast. As Facebook actively develops a new data center one has to stop and wonder how much useless information they are storing on their servers. And I’m not talking about drunk photos and [...]
It’s Sunday afternoon, and I just landed in Sydney. The plane ride over from Melbourne was a little “dodgy” as the locals would say. Our pilot came on the PA system 45 minutes prior to our scheduled landing time and barked, “Flight attendants prepare for landing IMMEDIATELY.” The word “immediately” coupled with a quick nose [...]
And so it begins… After landing at Melbourne International Airport I boarded a bus headed to a little town called Sorrento, which lies about an hour and a half outside of Melbourne. If you have ever been to Sorrento, Italy then you can pretty much imagine how Sorrento, Australia is. Think quiet, sleepy sea-side town. All [...]
Book: Technical Analysis Using Multiple Timeframes Author: Brian Shannon Purchase Link Brian Shannon has worked as a broker, owned a day-trading firm, managed a hedge fund, and ran a proprietary trading desk where he was recognized as the firm’s most profitable trader. With this experience in mind, it is safe to say that Technical Analysis Using Multiple Timeframes was written [...]