Posted on January 29, 2008 at 8:36 am
By Megan in Barr Family Blog
Okay, so in the movie it was “we have a problem.” The only problem we have this time is that we are now into excellent uncharted territory!
Friday, January 25th, we had our first sonogram appointment for this fourth pregnancy. As you are all well aware, over the past 3 years we have had [...]
75 basis point cut, 650+ day movement on the DJI, sectors soaring and falling like rocks… It has been a wild ride. Click in to read about the week that was, and what I think will happen over the course of 2008.
It’s official. I’ve been accepted to, and will attend, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University!
It has been a very difficult decision process to figure out which school I will attend. I only applied to the best of the best and have been accepted to multiple top 5 schools.
Over the past month [...]
Well, well, well… That was a pleasant surprise closing in the markets today.
Let me update you on the paper money portfolio.
This morning, right after the opening when things were in the toilet I was filled on all five of my positions. Of course, having a great broker I received price improvement all every last [...]
Okay… So I think this is the bottom.
Could I be wrong? Yup… If I am I may blow through about 100K of the paper money account, however I don’t think that is going to happen. I’m working on a series of positions right now. They are along a ton of different ‘minis’.
When I get fills [...]
Big Ben and Co. cut the federal funds rate by 75 basis points this morning. That seemed to help soften the blow to the U.S. markets as they have mostly faded the opening gap.
Right now I have a very, very heavy cash position. In my long term (read: retirement) accounts, I am still continuing to [...]
If Ben & Co. don’t do something before the opening tomorrow, it looks like it is going to be one of the roughest ones we’ve seen in a long, long time.
World markets have tanked overnight and its looking like a dreary Tuesday is setting up. So what do to? Well, huge falls in the market [...]
Posted on January 19, 2008 at 3:15 pm
By Megan in Barr Family Blog
So I had my Intake appointment with the nurse on Thursday… it’s the one where they review all your medical history (again!). They ordered the normal blood panels and other tests that all pregnant ladies get, plus a quantitative hcg test. In the past, this means I’ve had to take one blood test, [...]
Ryan and I traveled to Chicago last week to accomplish several things. 1) I had never been there. And if I’m gonna live there for a few years, I gotta make sure I like it! 2) Ryan had an interview at Kellogg. 3) He also attended one class at GSB and [...]
Wow! Today was a wicked day in the markets. Things are looking very, very bearish. I’m not quite sure what is going on in the market place right now. The fed seems to be taking much to long to take action, and things are looking really, really ugly.
I’m happily out of my posted RUT trade [...]
