This cracks me up but I don’t blame them. There are many times I don’t want to be bothered by office coworkers and I’m glad I work from home 95% of the time. If you’ve ever found yourself stuck with a gabbing coworker who makes it difficult to work, you’re not alone. And if you’ve taken extreme measures to get peace and quiet, you have company too. Employees worldwide have found a solution that lets them avoid seeming like party poopers by telling colleagues—or in some cases, family members or friends—to be quiet and to stop bothering them. They merely use a video of a random meeting to pretend they are busy so others assume they don’t have time to talk. - via MSN ...

This is a trade review of my Costco COST call option trade. Why was I interested in COST? Because earnings was coming and I wanted to catch a price run up. Which way was COST trading? It was in a long upward trend. Was COST making an all-time high? Yes. When did you enter the trade and at what cost? I entered the trade on 3/5/2024. I bought 10 June 21, 2024 COST Calls for an average price of $7.53. Total cost was $7,545 What was COST trading at the time of entry? It was trading around $764. That was my entry. Now what about the exit? Why did I exit and not hold through earnings? ...

Biden says “I betcha (the) rates come down” at a campaign stop. He did say that it’s not guaranteed. https://twitter.com/LastCallCNBC/status/1766260439179038741 President’s do do this but Trump did it and he broke the seal. Who knows but the S&P500 made a bearish engulfing candle on Friday.

This is the start of my weekly market reviews for my trading journal. This is my digital watering hole, where I can celebrate wins and commiserate losses. It’s where I’ll work hard to figure out my new trading strategy and find opportunities in the market. I’m an old trader, definitely not a bold trader. What a week! I sold my stock holding in NVDA for a 20% profit and closed out all my AMD and COST calls. I made 68% profit each for those option trades. Options trading is insane and you can make sick money with it. Of course, you can lose sick money with it too. ...

I bought a call for COST, strike price 900 for June 21st expiration. The strategy behind buying these calls is this: earnings are due for Costco on Thursday and I expect good results. On top of that, COST has been one of my best long-term performers and I wanted to make some extra income from its strong trend. AMD closed down yesterday and NVDA managed to close up. Yesterday was a down day for the market but these two hanging tough in the face of the sell-off means the momentum is strong. ...

Ian Katz, a regulatory policy analyst at Capital Alpha Partners, said he was surprised by Powell’s blunt admission that the proposal could be redone. “The vice chair of supervision is supposed to drive the bus on regulatory and supervisory matters,” he said. “The truth is he drives the bus unless the chair and other members think he has gone too far off the main road.” The heads of Wall Street’s biggest banks were in attack mode when they testified before the Senate Banking Committee in December. One by one, executives confidently told lawmakers their institutions were safe and that everyday Americans would ultimately pay the price if tougher rules are enacted. ...

This is an old link from like 2017 and I dug it out for my zettelkasten. DataRobot had already been working on time-series technology, but buying Nutonian accelerates the process and doubles its addressable market, said DataRobot co-founder and CEO Jeremy Achin. He added that about 20% of DataRobot’s existing customers have time series data that they now handle manually, for the most part. That painstaking work is ripe for automation, said Achin who, before co-founding DataRobot five years ago, was director of research and modeling at Travelers Insurance (TRV). - via Fortune ...

A great Medium article from my former colleague Martin Liebig (Schmitz). In this article I would like to show how you can access and change RapidMiner variables (called Macros and are always strings). We will opt for a Groovy script. The advantage of Groovy over the other methods is, that you can access RapidMiner’s objects directly. With the other options you transfer data over into their respective data frames, transform them, and pass them back. Groovy is way more direct in this sense. - Via Medium ...

Now that I’m an active trader again I’m going to restart my semi-daily trading journal. I do this to keep myself sane spot where I make mistakes and learn to correct them. I’m long NVDA and it’s been a rocket to the moon. I got in around $750 and I expect it to hit $900 first before peaking out around $1,000. Traders love round numbers and I’m very wary of them because price action could fail around there. ...

Trade log star date March 1, 2024. Today I opened my first option trade in a long time. Yes, I own the covered call writing ETF’s QYLD and RYLD, but this was my first call option in two decades. Why did I do this? Simple, because “stonks” go up, at least in a strong bull market. There’s such a market euphoria right now that people are blindly throwing money at AMD, NVDA, and host of other shit related AI stocks that there are new all-time highs being made daily. ...