update

edit: apparently as I wrote this, we got a 4.7 quake...didn't even notice...

so its been a up an down week.

Upside:

Bud Donny took his own money and flew to Japan to help out with the terrible aftermath of the earthquake.

downside:

Probably officially failed out of calculus, **RANT WARNING**

ok so every math course I have taken in my 2 year span at this university has given the tests out of 40. My current calc prof gives the tests out of 15, that means that if you get one small mistake wrong, you lose 1 mark, thus 6% of your test score. This is complete bullshit. The point of a test being out of 40 is so that you can give marks for the student knowing the process, and taking a mark off for incorrect processes. This has caused me to go from an A in calculus to a F. I have put effort into studying, and I know the material, I simply did several small errors and lost 6% for each.

The other thing is that the prof likes to throw complex rational curve balls. He will give you a complex rational function, and you would have to simplify before you do the actual calculus. The error behind this is that if you do the wrong simplification, you have the wrong calculus process, and you lose 6%.

So now I will probably not get into QME for September, and need to waste another year and another couple thousand dollars trying to get into this damn school.

ARGG...


Trading side of things:

I have been long USD this past little bit. I took half my positions ~+200, and closed the rest at breakeven on the spike from the earthquake. Currently reshorted euro at 1.3919. Looking for 1.34 or lower (1.32).


anyways,

All the best to the people of Japan and their families.