When I think of the summary of the stock trading, this sentence jump into my mind.
"Cut Loss, Let Profit Run".
Did I fellow this classical epigram of stock trading? I don't think so.
Otherwise, why did I lose 20K last year?
The biggest lesson for me is "Cut Loss".
It is by far the most important rule of stock trading, because you should preserve your money for the next opportunity. Or you will be kicked out of the field, since you have nothing to bet.
I lose more than 15K on one single stock "PROX". It is the most bloody lesson that I have to learn.
The reason is that I didn't cut the loss. I missed so many opportunities to cut the loss and wait until it slides to the abyss.
The second lesson for me is "Let Profit Run".
I just found that "CLHB" has been up for the whole last year and it is almost ten-fold price of my purchase price. However, I didn't catch this one and let it slip away from my hands too early.
The other lesson that I have to learn is the "combination".
I should keep a combination of stocks even though I don't have enough money now. :(
If you are still a rookie of stock trading, don't put all your eggs in one basket.
I think that I must have learned something for the 20K.
Actually, it is almost the similar wisdom of your life. All the wisdoms are similar. Simple and Beautiful.
Your life, study, job, everything, you may apply the similar wisdom to your whole life, principally. Actually, I think that your lifestyle is almost determined by your habit, your attitude, and your personality, besides all the external factors.
So, re-think yourself and find out your basic principles.
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Monday, May 23, 2005
Search tips for aMule
Some tips about search in aMule.
Besides searching for the exact title that you want, you can search for the following keyword in each category, when you just want to browse the available resources, without definitive search goals.
Movie:
osloskop
realworld.de
verycd
shareconnector
TVShow:
verycd
YDY
[by.HCK]
kangxicom
guess
Mp3:
andrewfox
Koopman (classical)
EBook:
laxxuss
AMACOM
sharereactor
Lotb
Lib
rbs (ebook, exam cram)
publisher's name (ebook) such like O'reiley ..
Software:
shareconnector
Other keywords:
full album
flac
audio book
Besides searching for the exact title that you want, you can search for the following keyword in each category, when you just want to browse the available resources, without definitive search goals.
Movie:
osloskop
realworld.de
verycd
shareconnector
TVShow:
verycd
YDY
[by.HCK]
kangxicom
guess
Mp3:
andrewfox
Koopman (classical)
EBook:
laxxuss
AMACOM
sharereactor
Lotb
Lib
rbs (ebook, exam cram)
publisher's name (ebook) such like O'reiley ..
Software:
shareconnector
Other keywords:
full album
flac
audio book
Friday, May 13, 2005
Amarok is a nice music player
I tried Amarok today and I love it immediately.
It has many interesting features, such like "auto score the songs", "auto download covers", and "song title OSD".
The one I loved most is the "auto fetch lyric" function. It is able to download and display the lyric intelligently. No wonder it was once recommended by an article from newforge.com. Besides that, the GUI is intuitive.
I love it and I gonna install it on my laptop.
It has many interesting features, such like "auto score the songs", "auto download covers", and "song title OSD".
The one I loved most is the "auto fetch lyric" function. It is able to download and display the lyric intelligently. No wonder it was once recommended by an article from newforge.com. Besides that, the GUI is intuitive.
I love it and I gonna install it on my laptop.
I love donkeynetwork
Recent trials of amule (p2p client of edonkey2000 network) bring me to the world of p2p file sharing.
Known about the p2p file sharing more than 3 years, especially the bittorrent (short as bt), I haven't tried this new, yet already mature technology until last week.
One reason is due to the lack of broadband access. Another reason is the shortage of motivation. I don't like downloading tons of movies, sitcoms, which are the most popular types of files shared over the p2p network.
However, along with the shutdown of many mp3 file downloading website, p2p network becomes the last resort of downloading my loved music files.
Anyway, the experience of using the p2p network last week make me really happy. It's just like Alibaba suddenly found the treasure of bandits. I finally found the free music download base. I've downloaded more than 10G music from p2p network during the last week. I learned a new word, "Discography", which means a collection of all the songs performed by a certain artist, and I love to download the "Discography"!!
I've downloaded or been downloading "Discography" of
* Celine Dion
* Eminem
* Elton John
* Queen
* Shania Twain
* Air Supply
* U2
* Enya
* Enigma
* Dido
* Avril Lavigne
* Eric Clapton
* Bon Jovi
* Roxette
* Green Day
* Michael Jackson
All are my favorite artists. Also, I've downloaded tons of audio books, including Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Saga" series (1-8), "Harry Potter" (1-5) and some "Foundation".
Ah, I don't know what I will download next. ;-) Seems that I've downloaded all I want know. I am still resisting the allure of downloading movies that I frankly am not very interested.
Oh, yes, I forget to mention that I've downloaded couple of Linux Games produced by Loki, although I may not play those games at all. Just for collection. :-)
I know that most of people are already quite familiar with p2p networks such like BT or KaZaa, even got bored sometime.
But, it's really new experience for me and I do enjoy it very much so far !!
Known about the p2p file sharing more than 3 years, especially the bittorrent (short as bt), I haven't tried this new, yet already mature technology until last week.
One reason is due to the lack of broadband access. Another reason is the shortage of motivation. I don't like downloading tons of movies, sitcoms, which are the most popular types of files shared over the p2p network.
However, along with the shutdown of many mp3 file downloading website, p2p network becomes the last resort of downloading my loved music files.
Anyway, the experience of using the p2p network last week make me really happy. It's just like Alibaba suddenly found the treasure of bandits. I finally found the free music download base. I've downloaded more than 10G music from p2p network during the last week. I learned a new word, "Discography", which means a collection of all the songs performed by a certain artist, and I love to download the "Discography"!!
I've downloaded or been downloading "Discography" of
* Celine Dion
* Eminem
* Elton John
* Queen
* Shania Twain
* Air Supply
* U2
* Enya
* Enigma
* Dido
* Avril Lavigne
* Eric Clapton
* Bon Jovi
* Roxette
* Green Day
* Michael Jackson
All are my favorite artists. Also, I've downloaded tons of audio books, including Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Saga" series (1-8), "Harry Potter" (1-5) and some "Foundation".
Ah, I don't know what I will download next. ;-) Seems that I've downloaded all I want know. I am still resisting the allure of downloading movies that I frankly am not very interested.
Oh, yes, I forget to mention that I've downloaded couple of Linux Games produced by Loki, although I may not play those games at all. Just for collection. :-)
I know that most of people are already quite familiar with p2p networks such like BT or KaZaa, even got bored sometime.
But, it's really new experience for me and I do enjoy it very much so far !!
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Interview result
Received the reply from UBC about the failure of the interview last week. Feel so bad.
Apparently, I didn't perform well in the interview. Here is a short summary of reasons for my failure.
1) I should blame my answer of that two questions: strength and weakness.
2) The verbal communication is apparent not effective. I can feel that I was too anxious to clearly convey my ideas.
Anyway, don't give up, keep applying and be more prepared next time.
Apparently, I didn't perform well in the interview. Here is a short summary of reasons for my failure.
1) I should blame my answer of that two questions: strength and weakness.
2) The verbal communication is apparent not effective. I can feel that I was too anxious to clearly convey my ideas.
Anyway, don't give up, keep applying and be more prepared next time.
About the Interview
I did an interview with a research center at UBC, for an open position of programmer/analyst, performing data extraction and analysis tasks.
This job fits my background perfectly. I did data analysis and prediction on a huge real-world dataset in my master study. I also love this job coz it requires Unix experience and shell scripting skills.
I thought my interview was successful initially. However, I have been contacted after one week and I start to doubt whether I have survived the interview.
The interview was conducted by a 5-person team consist of two technical managers, two programmers, and one operation manager. I was asked various questions for about one hour.
I believe that I have passed most of the technical questions, but I think that I might have missed two important personality questions.
The first question was "What is the first three strong points that people will say about you, when we ask for a reference" (something like that)
I remember that I said those three strengths: creativity, programming skills, and organizational skills.
Apparently, I haven't really prepared to be interviewed with this question. However, this question is just a variation of "strength" questions or like.
I should answer the question with more thoughts and be consistent with my resume. I should have answered, fast-learner, self-starter, and organizational skills or programming skills.
I think that those three answers are much better than my original answer.
I could use "scjp", "R", and "Latex" as my fast-learning examples.
"Latex" and "Perl" could be two good examples of self-starter.
Organizational skills are easy to prove.
The second question is closely related to the first question. I didn't answer it very well, either.
It's about my weakness, when it is asked from referrer.
I responded with a very stupid answer, "communication problem, because of multi-culture conflict". That's really bad, coz nobody would like to hire a people with communication problem.
To make things even worse, I cited two examples for this question. That's damn stupid!
I now have a better answer and it is also the fact, that my writing skills are not perfect. With this answer, it is so understandable and it won't affect my personal image, I think, because you can always improve the writing skills.
Anyway, I think that those two dumb answers might have ruined my interview if I am rejected. Sigh! I really love this job.
I'll contact the operation manager tomorrow for the result, if any.
Be more prepared, next time.
This job fits my background perfectly. I did data analysis and prediction on a huge real-world dataset in my master study. I also love this job coz it requires Unix experience and shell scripting skills.
I thought my interview was successful initially. However, I have been contacted after one week and I start to doubt whether I have survived the interview.
The interview was conducted by a 5-person team consist of two technical managers, two programmers, and one operation manager. I was asked various questions for about one hour.
I believe that I have passed most of the technical questions, but I think that I might have missed two important personality questions.
The first question was "What is the first three strong points that people will say about you, when we ask for a reference" (something like that)
I remember that I said those three strengths: creativity, programming skills, and organizational skills.
Apparently, I haven't really prepared to be interviewed with this question. However, this question is just a variation of "strength" questions or like.
I should answer the question with more thoughts and be consistent with my resume. I should have answered, fast-learner, self-starter, and organizational skills or programming skills.
I think that those three answers are much better than my original answer.
I could use "scjp", "R", and "Latex" as my fast-learning examples.
"Latex" and "Perl" could be two good examples of self-starter.
Organizational skills are easy to prove.
The second question is closely related to the first question. I didn't answer it very well, either.
It's about my weakness, when it is asked from referrer.
I responded with a very stupid answer, "communication problem, because of multi-culture conflict". That's really bad, coz nobody would like to hire a people with communication problem.
To make things even worse, I cited two examples for this question. That's damn stupid!
I now have a better answer and it is also the fact, that my writing skills are not perfect. With this answer, it is so understandable and it won't affect my personal image, I think, because you can always improve the writing skills.
Anyway, I think that those two dumb answers might have ruined my interview if I am rejected. Sigh! I really love this job.
I'll contact the operation manager tomorrow for the result, if any.
Be more prepared, next time.
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Amazing Race is fantastic!
I watched the finale of the "Amazing Race" season 7, tonight. It's really amazing!
The couple won the 1M prize have been experiencing a really hard last journey, because they were deprived of all of their money and luggage.
It's an odysse and they finally made it. It's unbelievable!
They are warm-hearted and have demonstrated amenity to other people, such like the old couple.
Yes, they won the prize and everybody love them.
In this last episode, this couple had to beg for money to pay their food, drink, and taxi.
They are lucky enough to catch up the plane from Jamaica to Florida.
Their taxi driver are smart enough to figure out the "little Havana".
Oh, all those things are not easy and we are so glad that they made it.
We finally applaud for them in front of the TV, just like the other contestants.
I have watched almost every episode of the Amazing Race 7.
It's one of my favoriate reality show and I just gonna keep watching the next season. (Who knows when?)
The couple won the 1M prize have been experiencing a really hard last journey, because they were deprived of all of their money and luggage.
It's an odysse and they finally made it. It's unbelievable!
They are warm-hearted and have demonstrated amenity to other people, such like the old couple.
Yes, they won the prize and everybody love them.
In this last episode, this couple had to beg for money to pay their food, drink, and taxi.
They are lucky enough to catch up the plane from Jamaica to Florida.
Their taxi driver are smart enough to figure out the "little Havana".
Oh, all those things are not easy and we are so glad that they made it.
We finally applaud for them in front of the TV, just like the other contestants.
I have watched almost every episode of the Amazing Race 7.
It's one of my favoriate reality show and I just gonna keep watching the next season. (Who knows when?)
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