- Daily Log:
- MLK day
- Watched an interesting video on day-trading $1000 without experience #finance
- Future contracts can be commodity or financial instrument
- Commodities are gold, oil, wood
- Financial instrument is S&P index, NASDAQ etc
- If you are bullish on the commodity, meaning you think it will go up - you would buy the contract now and sell it in the future
- If you are bearish on the commodity, meaning you think it will go down - you would sell the contract now and buy it in the future
- Future trading is also leveraged, so the broker applies a multiplier on the amount you are putting as margin
- This multiplier depends on various factors
- This makes future trading risky
- The person started the first few days with extremely high return on investment and just to have it all crash back down
- Which is the point, I guess, he was trying to show how much of a gamble this is
- #programming #braindump Given a category of shops (i.e. coffee stores), scrape the opening hours of the ones in a given area, then build a heatmap for each day of the week, and determine the best time range such that you are guaranteed that any shop will be open
- Make your bed
- Completing small tasks builds the snowball
- Take risks
- You can’t succeed without taking risks
- Get used to the circus
- You will prepare all you can and still fail, often
- Get used to that
- It takes other’s help to be successful
- Raise the downtrodden
- Respect everyone
- Retrospective::
- Daily Stoic::
- One way to have an optimistic view of the world is through the eyes of an artist and poet
- View dark and painful things as metaphorically beautiful is a skill that can help with depression and negative thoughts