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The April trading competition is getting close to completion and I’m more than likely going to miss out on a top 5 place. I was hoping to be somewhere near the top 5, though I can’t say I’m disappointed. During the 2 weeks of this competition I’ve had reasonable returns of about 2-3% (I think […]
Filed by Popeye at April 27th, 2007 under Finance, FOREX
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I wonder what’s going on with Nath and Ben’s 49er campaign, it seems that they had a great buildup to last years worlds, since then (with the exception of the Australian championships, though that might say more about our fleet) they’ve been having ordinary results, their latest is 22nd at Hyeres. Will and Jon beat […]
Filed by Popeye at April 27th, 2007 under Sailing
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How’s this for cool? In Europe they fly the M2 cats by chopper from lake to lake to save them the time of dismantling/reassembling the boats!
“What the hell,” you ask? This M2 cat is airborne as the […]
Filed by Popeye at April 25th, 2007 under Sailing
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I went to a book fair today at UNSW and managed to score a heap of finance type text books for a grand total of $11!! Anyone in Sydney who likes book fairs, should head down to UNSW, it finishes on saturday.
I’m currently reading An Arbitrage Guide to Financial Markets (It just arrived from Amazon […]
Filed by Popeye at April 25th, 2007 under Finance, books
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I’ve been going crazy being stuck behind the computer or going shopping or the movies or similar without any real physical activity, so today I was determined to do something that would at least get me doing something remotely physical. My plan to go for a sail didn’t come to anything (it’s hard sometimes when […]
Filed by Popeye at April 22nd, 2007 under Outdoors, Geocaching
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What a corrupt bunch Bush and his pals are…
Filed by Popeye at April 21st, 2007 under Political
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Some interesting speculation I read about at Sailing Anarchy, there are rumours that Alinghi has a bendy keel. If so then it’s a quite a clever workaround to a canting keel, and quite a engineering achievement to get it to work with a massive chunk of lead hanging off the bottom of it.
Filed by Popeye at April 19th, 2007 under Sailing
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Last night there was some US news which caused my (in competition, I haven’t been trading AUD live because of my trouble with just these types of spikes) AUD position taken out for a very small profit by my trailing (manually) stop loss, it was a bit of a bummer since it was just a […]
Filed by Popeye at April 19th, 2007 under FOREX, Trading
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In todays update I’ve been passed by a couple of other competitors so now I’m down to 5th… maybe being risky would’ve been a better way to do well. I’ll keep playing it as I’ve planned and will be interested to see if any of those above me have a decent sized drawdown to help […]
Filed by Popeye at April 18th, 2007 under Finance, FOREX, Trading
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Checkout (click on the pic for a bigger version) the bend in the foils on this bladerider!
photo from Graham Vials, there are a heap more at Fotoboat, I’ve included one that looks cool at the bottom of this post.
It’s good to see them releasing some news, otherwise without seeing boats on the water it appears […]
Filed by Popeye at April 18th, 2007 under Sailing
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