Life and Investment Hacking with Shane

What information a Technical Program Manager (TPM) needs to drive a project through to completion

I’ve recently been challenged by my Amazon manager to increase my capacity to be able to manage more projects at once. I’ve been concurrently managing around 1 large software project and then around 2-4 medium to smaller projects. Increasing my capacity means identifying the important, high leverage tasks and focus on driving those tasks and eliminate the rest. In another way, what’s the…

This past February, I wrote and passed Exam 70-485: Advanced Windows Store App Development Using C#, the 3rd exam of 3 to obtain my Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD)certification for Developing Windows Store apps in C#. This exam was definitely the hardest of the 3 for me, particularly due to the recent changes of the exams from Windows 8 to 8.1 and being able to get and organize the…

How I Passed the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) Exam #1

Early this May, I wrote Exam #1 of 3 for the Chartered Market Technician certification from the Market Technicians Association (MTA). I decided to pursue the certification to continue my education on the financial side of things, in particular in technical analysis which I have been doing for a while now.

As I’ve been doing technical analysis for a while now, I decide to take Exam #1 on a short…

“The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking” Book Review

“The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking” is one of those books I wish I had read much, much earlier. This easy to read book offers solid, practical advice on how to think so that you can understand topics more deeply, and learn faster.

The first section delves into understanding a topic deeply, and offers some interesting and useful exercises you can do to identify areas where your understanding is…

“Personal Kanban” Book Review

During my time learning about “Agile” software development methodologies and personal management (See Getting Results the Agile Way by J.D.Meier), I came across the concept of Kanban and was intrigued by its dashboard-like, visual setup; something I’ve felt was missing from many of the time management systems out there. “Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life” by Tonianne DeMaria Barry…

An Overview of Becoming MSCD Certified

This past Friday, I wrote and passed Exam 70-485, the third exam of 3 for the Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) certification for Developing Windows Store Apps in C#. This means I am officially a MCSD holder.

TODO: Add Virtual Business card

I recently wrote and passed Exam 70-484 which is the second exam of three to obtain an MCSD… http://wp.me/sGz1b-465

2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an…

Developing a Windows Store App for Additional Trading System Analysis - Part 1

So I’m in the process of obtaining my Microsoft Certified Solutions Development (MCSD)…

IB and RTH Range Correlation Study

I was going through FuturesTrader71′s websitethe other day and came across a couple research…

I like reading Dr. Van Tharp’s weekly newsletters. In a previous issue, there was an article that caught my eye.  Ali Moin-Afshari wrote a 4-part article on Band trading which was particularly interesting to me as I’ve done a lot of work with the MACD BB…

I’ve taken my first step towards the MCSD certification… I passed Exam 70-483 Programming in C# this past week. This was an interesting step as I haven’t written a computer exam since my Masters degree at the University of Alberta. But I did it to…

Many traders out there think that Volume doesn’t matter. After all, it takes 2 traders to make a trade. Both sides are always present, so why does it matter? And in the traditional sense, I agree. But when looking at volume from a Volume Profiling…

Opening Types

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. – Semisonic

Ding Ding Ding! The opening…

Day Type Statistics for the ES (S&P 500 E-mini Futures Contract)

Our previous articleexplaining Day Types looked at the Day Type classification as explained by…

How I Use Evernote to Manage My Rental Properties

Ah Evernote! Whatever did I do before you?!?!? Evernote is one of those tools that once you use…

Testing Stop Loss Methodologies in Trading Systems

In part 1of this series, we looked at how we could test your entry methodology to see if it getting…

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