Month: December 2014

Hello all members!

Please read the following blog article carefully as this will provide a plan for the club’s activities next year.

Topics: There is clearly an issue as to what we should be studying next year. Some members will be going through the club a second time, while others will be novices. Therefore, we will either split the club into two sections, one of which will be led by a lower officer and one that will be led by me, or we could start learning about more advanced topics and assign the previous meetings as homework.

Trading (President only): We will be discontinuing our paper trading challenge. However, we will probably start a real money trading project, which will involve solely the President. Only certain officers will be able to suggest ideas for the charity project, but this is ONLY for myself. We will be using an aggressive allocation approach, and there is a large chance that the principal will evaporate. If you would like to be involved in this project and make it a two or three person endeavor, email me.

Blogging: Our blogging structure will be definitely changing next year. We will be moving more of the blogs towards myself and Aabhash as Ken helps new members get up to speed. The blogs will now begin turning into videos, like the market blog. Eventually, we might even create a mock television show. Other blogs will continue to be published on the website.

Videos (President only): The videos I mentioned will initially be created by myself only. In the future, if an officer wants to make one, consult my previous blog post introducing videos.

Coding Projects (President only): Next year, I will begin work on some coding projects like financial apps. These are for me only, and will not be on the club website, but on my personal site.

This list will be updated as soon as plans are made.

Hello officers,

You officers will be competing in a paper-money challenge on thinkorswim. Here are the rules:

• You start with $200,000.
• You will be trading with ONLY the $100,000 in the margin account.
• You are allowed to use any method to make money.
• Quotes and options are delayed. Many features are missing.
• Do not reset your account without asking me first.
• You must LEARN about TOS. This will take a few years, DO NOT say that you know everything already. As far as I know, NO ONE other than me has even placed a real trade in a real platform, or even a paper trade.
• You must use the desktop version at first.

If you are interested in participating, please EMAIL me. I will give you instructions.

Participating in this TOS challenge and all future ones, and learning about the platform and its MANY MANY features are a PREREQUISITE to participating in the real money challenge next year. If you are interested in doing that, email me.

– Michael Trehan

Hello members!

You may have noticed that I have published a Video Blog on multiple methods on how to trade the VIX, in addition to a presentation blog with slides from the video. Unusual types of blogs will only be published by the President, Michael Trehan, until further notice.

Here is the protocol which you will be using later for creating a vlog:

1. Optional: Write about a topic in a normal blog.
2. Optional: Create a presentation that will be used in the video.
3. For Mac, use Quicktime Player (built-in) to record. For Windows, see me to record a screencast.
4. Record either a screencast or a video of yourself, or the latter overlaid in the former.
5. Edit the multiple raw video files in iMovie (Mac) or Windows Movie Maker (Windows, see me).
6. Export the finished project to a single file in a common format.
7. Copy the file onto a flash-drive, and give Michael the drive.
8. Michael will upload the video to Youtube, and embed the video in the website.

Remember that video blogs are worth extra! They must reflect effort. The reason that you will be unable to publish vlogs initially is because of quality control reasons.

– Michael Trehan