Irene Eng The Kibbitzer

A famir on DAX greeted me this morning at 10:15am … my very first self-spotted famir, :).  Over the time I’ve traded this pattern - infrequently - but always relied on the moderator.  Once I can eyeball the pattern, then the rest is easy … end up having 2 famir trades today, 1 loss 1 win with the winner [...]

That was the title of a NYT reporting almost two years ago to the day.  It’s about compliance lawyers have benefited from the high number of investigations into corporate finance.
Looked across the room at Babbo recently and figured that the man and woman splitting an expensive bottle of wine worked on Wall Street? Good [...]

The W hotel in Dallas is right across from the American Airlines Center where Mavericks and Stars (hockey) play.  It has great service (there’s money) but sleazy.  When Golfer and his colleagues drove up in a SUV, there were 4 doormen open the doors for them.  And wow, they immediately saw the groupies dressed almost in nothing.  [...]

Trading with Woodie is fairly simple: recognize his patterns for entry, do smart money management, then you’re in business.  He said the other day that ghost and famir patterns are the most profitable.  I can eye ball the ZLR and ghost (although I see way too many ghosts, but I don’t trade them all … only [...]

Lady Butler-Sloss, a talented British judge with 35-year career, had just resigned, citing that she lacked the degree of experience to deal with Diana’s high profile case.  Such candor is rare.  I think the smart people always know the time to exit the stage before the light is out on them.  Hong Kongers like to say if you [...]

FT wrote that according to a survey out last week from Institutional Investor’s Alpha Magazine, Simons took home $1.7bn in 2006, the biggest haul among hedgies and about 31x $54m paid to Lloyd Blankfein of GS.  He charges a legendary fees 5% of assets and 44% of profits, vs 2% n 20% the norm.  His Medallion [...]

In music, rondo means a theme a composer returns to.  Guess China is my rondo where I return to often, :) …

An interesting article in NYT today the power of connection, guanxi 关系.  I felt the western media over stated the importance of connection in China.  Yes, it’s important, but where it isn’t? 

I’m so beat, played tennis three times: early morning with my usual group, mid day per Slowpoke’s request and night when she took her lesson, I ended up playing with Henry.  He and his wife were very much on my mind, becasue the protest thing yesterday.  They both are very active, she now works (not [...]

I’ve a friend in town who stays at the W on Lex at 50th Street where many the draftees stay.  This W hotel isn’t the nicest one, felt cheap.  There are many groupies around, but most of them aren’t pretty, couple of them are down right fatso … … I just love football but never been [...]

From left to right -
Back row:
Mom and Dad
Jiujiu 舅舅: mom’s older brother
Xiaoyi 小姨: mom’s younger sister
Front row:
Nainai 奶奶: Yeye’s last concubine
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Yeye 爷爷: my maternal grandfather
Popo 婆婆: my maternal grandmother

Not yet in the picture:
Jiumu 舅母: Jiujiu’s wife
Xiaoyifu 小姨父: Xiaoyi’s husband

Slowpoke played Katie yesterday.  They rallied nicely for an hour, constantly saying ’sorry’ and the other would return ‘that’s ok’, :)) ..  Each hit plenty winners!  Still would say, ’sorry’, so cute.  Toward the end, I suggested them to play a game or two.  Katie served first with 4 double faults.  Slowpoke served two double faults [...]

I got an e-mail for a protest at CBS TV station in the city at noon today.  It said little about the reason other than ‘CBS program’s humiliated Chinese … ‘  What exactly did the host or hosts say to be offensive to us?
This reminded me of an incident happened in the spring 2003 in our [...]

I’ve been burning thing at the frequency that’s alarming. So today after I blacken another load of wings, I decided that I’ll buy a kitchen clock. Slowpoke looked puzzled, “kitchen clock?” she pointed to the clocks on the MW, stove . . . “we have so many clocks…”  * & * & . . . I explained [...]

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Slowpoke needs new cleats and sneakers, and bought 6.5, that’s half size bigger than mine!  Lord, I thought I’d wear her hand-me-ups for a while, guess not.  Kinglazy would kiss my forehead now that he’s much taller than I’m … its me having a growing pain, lol … or growing old issue. 

Golfer is having a ball in Dallas.  Women in Dallas dressed to the nine to go to golf tourneys, skinpie short skirts, high heels … there were even groupies hanging around at trendy hotel W when he checked in.  Of course he said he didn’t …. but his colleagues did, :))).  The dinner party was great, with [...]

Slowpoke came home with her lacrosse uniform, top and skirt, in blue … I need to sneak a pic for the record.

Professor Ma is a native of Hefei, capital of Anhui Province and the cradle of the 淮系 Huai Clique that had dominated China and the world from 1860 till the death of its curator Li Hongzhang in 1901.  He edited two books on the Huai Clique, one focused on the military leaders and one on civil which [...]