Julia Chen - top 10 debut study

June 16, 2018

Introduction

I learned the word debut less than one years ago, it is called Elina Svitolina top 10 debut.

I had two onsite experience, one is in June 2016; and the second one is in June 2018. I just could not believe that I totally am different person with more confidence this year. I shared the story how I played Hackerrank contests and got first gold medal in 2017. I had chance to get myself ready in 2 weeks for system design, and actually I learned advanced web architecture using Microservice, I know how to quickly catch up a project like system design by asking help, get some private coaching from best coach in the world. I learned how to manage a few things in less than three weeks.

I also had chance to share my experience, how happy I am to help me as a mock interviewer. I did work with a Harvard graduate with computer science degree, taught him how to write code to apply SOLID principle. No one gave him the feedback before, so he could not tell what to work on next on this issue.

Certainly I still have some issues to deal with wishful thinking, and also a healthy doze of anxiety, but with my coach's help, I just quickly recover and go back to routine to do more practice, happy as I am like one month ago.

Top 10 debut

The study topic is how to advance myself from top 200 to top 100? top 100 to top 10?

In professional tennis sport, top 200 to top 100 is hard to stay with. You have to play qualification in order to get in big grand slam matches.

From top 100 to top 10, usually the club of top 10 is very hard to get in. Those players are more mature and do not show any emotion on the matches, and will catch up if the first set is down.

This May I quickly passed the phone screen using 28 minutes coding question. This is the first time in my history I can pass the phone screen. I did not do any code screen.

I need more practice in order to learn how to work on onsite experience with data structure and algorithm.

Am I top 200? Top 100? How can I advance myself to top 10 club?

Look at those can challenge? Can you image that I can design a can challenge drill for hard level algorithm? See one minutes I can solve how many hard level algorithm just by talking about the optimal solution and idea to solve it.

Leadership skills

I feel more confident to take rejection and also I am very happy to learn things, stay positive and open to new ideas.

I decide to learn those leadership principle and apply them to my daily work as well.

Elina Svitolina - top 10 debut

Feb. 25, 2017

Julia is a big fan of tennis, and she studied one tennis star a time. So, today she will spend 20 - 30 minutes to learn a new player, she never remembered her name before, called: Elina Svitolina.

Julia will study some statistics of the player, the coach, and the player's practice, the player's interview.

Here are videos she watched.

top 10 debut

WTA Can Challenge

August 7, 2015 14 minutes press conference - WTA - Bank of the West Classic Est. 1971

Julia's note

6:30 / 14:32 - it takes her time to move ranking to top 10. Not just go upward directly. Step by step, not rushing myself.

The top 5 or top 10 has more confidence to play against top 20 or 30, even she loses the first set, she does not show any emotion, wait for the chance to get back.

3 minutes video - know about Elina Svitolina - The move through Mutrid Madrid

Notes she took for the training, competing:

Always give your 100%. No matter how you feel, etc.

Actionable Item:

Spell error of word Madrid, Julia, spend 20 minutes to read the city of Madrid.

Can challenge

June 16, 2018

Introduction

It is the weekend for me to catch up some learning from tennis sports. I like to totally recover and have good feeling about myself and everything around me. 

I did some study from top 10 debut to can challenge WTA Can Challenge.

Can challenge

I need to work on Can challenge on Leetcode hard level algorithm. See one minute I can come out ideas to solve how many algorithms in hard level. 

Look at those Can challenge? I play over 500 hours tennis. I could not place a tennis ball close to less than 3 inches away. My hitting zone is much bigger area like 3 square foot * 3 square foot, it takes thousand hours to be professional player. I just could not believe that professional player spends years to practice all kind of drills. 

Algorithm challenge

Can you image that I can design a Can challenge drill for hard level algorithm? See five minutes I can solve how many hard level algorithm just by talking about the optimal solution and idea to solve it.

 

Iga Świątek

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Iga Świątek

Świątek at the 2019 French Open
Country (sports)	Poland
Residence	Raszyn, Poland
Born	31 May 2001 (age 20) Warsaw, Poland
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Tomasz Wiktorowski
Prize money	US$ 4,898,553
Singles
Career record	154–48 (76.2%)
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 4 (27 September 2021)
Current ranking	No. 8 (10 January 2022)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	SF (2022)
French Open	W (2020)
Wimbledon	4R (2021)
US Open	4R (2021)
Other tournaments
Tour Finals	RR (2021)
Olympic Games	2R (2021)
Doubles
Career record	27–14 (65.9%)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 41 (18 October 2021)
Current ranking	No. 41 (18 October 2021)
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open	F (2021)
US Open	2R (2019)
Mixed doubles
Career record	5–4 (55.6%)
Career titles	0
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2020)
Other mixed doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	QF (2020)
Team competitions
BJK Cup	PO (2020)
hide Medal record Women's tennis Representing  Mixed-NOCs (MIX) Summer Youth Olympics 2018 Buenos Aires Doubles
Last updated on: 10 January 2022.

Iga Natalia Świątek (Polish pronunciation: [ˈiɡa ˈɕfʲɔntɛk];^[1] born 31 May 2001) is a Polish professional tennis player. She is the youngest player in the top ten of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings, and has a career-high ranking of No. 4 in the world. Świątek was the champion at the 2020 French Open and is the first Polish player to win a Grand Slam singles title. With her French Open title, she also became the youngest singles champion at the tournament since Rafael Nadal in 2005, and the youngest women's singles champion at a major since Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon 2004.

Świątek's father Tomasz was an Olympic rower. As a junior, Świątek was the 2018 French Open girls' doubles champion alongside Caty McNally, and the 2018 Wimbledon girls' singles champion. She also led Poland to the Junior Fed Cup crown in 2016 and won a doubles gold medal for Poland at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics with Slovenian Kaja Juvan. Świątek began playing regularly on the WTA Tour in 2019, the same year she made her tour debut. She entered the top 50 at 18 years old after her first appearance in a WTA final and a fourth-round appearance at the French Open, where she was defeated by Simona Halep. During her dominant French Open title run in 2020, Świątek defeated Halep in the same round and did not drop a set or lose more than five games in any singles match. She entered the top ten of the WTA rankings for the first time on 17 May 2021, after winning the Italian Open, defeating former world No. 1 Karolína Plíšková in the final without conceding a game.

Świątek has an all-court style of play. She won the WTA Fan Favorite Shot of the Year in 2019 with a drop shot from the baseline, and was voted WTA Fan Favorite Singles Player of the Year in 2020.

A post-Fed rally | skepticism towards equities is still prevalent among institutional investors

 

There’s gas in the tank for a post-Fed rally so stick with the stock-market winners, says Wall Street bull

Fed day is finally here, and hopefully, the answer to burning questions about rate-cutting plans from the world’s most important central bank.

As we wait to see how the Fed’s words play out on Wall Street, our call of the day,is from the head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, Tom Lee, who says there will be a post-decision rally, offering five reasons for that.

One of Wall Street’s biggest and most enduring bulls, Lee correctly called the 2023 equity rally and sees the S&P 500 ending 2024 at 5,200, which he has said may be too conservative.

Lee acknowledges pre-Fed investor caution, which he attributes to January’s red-hot inflation data and easing financial conditions. He also finds investors seemingly in disbelief that stocks continue to rise despite January’s hot CPI data, recession worries, extreme valuations, still dominant Big Tech and hype around AI.

So in order for stocks to rally, some kind of surprise or relief element would be needed, which he expects. In the first of his five reasons, Lee talks about how stocks have been easing just a bit into the Fed meeting, which puts the odds in favor of equity gains.

“When you look at the last two years worth of rate decisions, when stocks are soft into the FOMC, they rally four out of seven times. It’s not a high probability…but it just shows you that there are things that can improve the odds, but at least the base case is that it’s probable that we rally after the FOMC,” Lee tells clients in an update.

The second reason surrounds softening interest rates, which can work in equities’ favor. Fundstrat’s head of technical strategy Mark Newton sees the 10-year Treasury yield at a peak:

Thirdly, the market has already priced in “bad news” — three instead of seven interest rate cuts that may not start until September.

Fourth, Fed Chair Jerome Powell was dovish to Congress earlier this month, and the strategist sees no reason why he would shift that stance on Wednesday.

Finally, the “gas-in-the-tank,” reason and for that, Fundstrat’s Newton has laid out a bullish technical setup. “We find investors become reflexively bearish every time the market starts to wobble. As long as ‘top calling’ remains the default mode, we think stocks are likely to continue to surprise to the upside,” says Lee.

Fundstrat sees the S&P 500 possibly reaching 5,250 to 5,300 in the aftermath of Wednesday’s meeting.

Lee says the “skepticism towards equities is still prevalent among institutional investors that we have visited with recently. And this caution, coupled with their expectation of a ‘hawkish’ Fed is the reason we expect stocks to rally.”

As for where to invest, despite some recent wariness around Nvidia, Lee says investors should “stick with what is working” this year, such as the AI theme — Nvidia NVDA, Cadence Design Systems CDNS, Arm Holdings ARM, Advanced Micro Devices AMD and the Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF .

Also don’t shed those weight-loss linked stocks such as Eli Lilly LLY and Novo Nordisk NVO or financials via Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF and industrials via Financial Select Sector SPDR . He also is sticking with bitcoin and its proxies — Marathon Digital MARA, PayPal PYPL, Coinbase COIN and MicroStrategy MSTR.

Stocks are struggling for traction, with bond yields also largely unchanged pre-Fed. Continued dollar strength has pushed the yen USDJPY close to multi-decade lows. Mr. Yen says intervention could happen soon. Oil CL is down over 1%.

Bitcoin BTCUSD has pared losses and is back up above $63,900, but some see sub-$60,000 possible amid ETFs outflows.

The buzz

The Fed is expected to leave key interest rates unchanged at the conclusion of its two-day meeting in a decision due at 2 p.m. All eyes on the “dot plot” for rate forecasts and a news conference with Chairman Powell at 2:30 p.m. Follow MarketWatch’s Live Coverage

PDD shares PDD are flying after the parent of fast-fashion platform Temu reported forecast-beating results.

Chipotle stock CMG is up 6% after the burrito chain said its board approved a 50-for-1 stock split. General Mills shares are headed for a 7-month high on a confirmed outlook and upbeat results.

BioNTech BNTX stock is dropping on earnings disappointment from the vaccine maker.

Intel INTC will get up to $8.5 billion in federal funding via the Chips Act, and the chip company’s stock is up 3%. Elsewhere, the Biden administration reportedly may blacklist several Chinese chip firms linked to Huawei.

Chip connectivity product maker Astera Labs will make its Nasdaq debut under symbol ALAB , after pricing its IPO above target range.

Read: Post-IPO, Reddit will still be the ‘quirky goth kid’ to Google and Facebook’s ‘varsity quarterbacks’

Boeing’s BA chief financial officer said cash flow will be worse than the company expected back in January after a spate of incidents.

Amid slumping China sales, Apple AAPL CEO Tim Cook is in Shanghai to open a new store.

JPMorgan Chase JPM is hiking its quarterly dividend by 9.5%.

The chart

Living on borrowed time. That is, the Big Tech rally, says a team of strategists at UBS led by Jonathan Golub. While valuation for the group that no longer includes Tesla — UBS calls it the Big Six — is 16% cheaper than in December, earnings momentum is the bigger problem. They see that deteriorating rapidly into this year. Here’s their chart:

Top tickers

These were the top-searched tickers on MarketWatch as of 6 a.m.:

Ticker	Security name
NVDA	Nvidia
TSLA	Tesla
SMCI	Super Micro Computer
AMD	Advanced Micro Devices
AAPL	Apple
NIO	Nio
MSTR	MicroStrategy
TSM	Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
GME	GameStop
AMZN	Amazon.com