Change from balanced to low risk

March 16, 2020

Introduction

It is not easy for me to stay humble, not over-confident on my investment strategy. I got contacted by my friend on March 10, 2020, I was over confident and I did not expect that things can get so serious related to corona virus. I need to make change and stay on the course, but reduce the risk.

Asset allocation

It is so important for me to apply asset allocation instead of timing the market. But after carefully consideration, it is better for me to save some cash in my investment account, and I like to use those cash to hedge against equity asset instead.

Here is March 16, 2020 S & P 500 index:

If  I stay humble, and do not be too greedy, then I will not invest another $13,000 Canada dollars on TFSA in February, 2020. Instead I should show concern about Chinese in China, and learn how to prevent Corona virus spread instead of focusing on SPX return for another year, another 30%.

If I am humble, then when my friend Pamela contacted me on March 10, 2020, I will carefully consider her suggestion, and then adjust my asset allocation, reduce equity from 50% to 25%, with total investment amount over $100,000 dollars.

Now I like to take loss, and sell 25% of equities, and then use those cash to hedge against equity. I do believe that SPX will continue to go down at least 500 points to meet 2000, or 2009 level.

holding serve with Elina Svitolina - 2017 US open

June 16, 2018

Introduction

It is good to spend time study one tennis player called Elina Svitolina. I like to learn from her how she handles the stress by putting two tatoos on her hand and arm. She is more mature turning 22 years old.

Question and answer

Give 100% for each practice and be ready

This year so much better?

One match a time

Why two tatoos on your hand?

I got last year. um sign four years ago, Carpe Diem. You got into situation and forget to stay in the moment. 7:13 - 9:00/ 9:50

It is important to play very well every week.

Healthy doze of anxiety

June 15, 2018

Introduction

It is a challenging topic. Healthy doze of anxiety, how to measure the healthy doze? I experienced a little bit last few days. As a person likes tennis as competitive sports, I know that I need to train my brain to stay grounded. Do not think past or future, stay at the moment.

3 drills to help me recover

With hundreds of hour tennis practice, I know how hard it is to take to get good control of various strokes. I have to work hard, get all kinds of coaching lesson through video, real matches, and also I have to practice thousand of strokes and spend hundreds of hours to practice. 

Last 6 months I stop to play tennis match, even practice. I notice that something is changing. I try to believe that I can do things without practice enough time. 

So I have to go back to tennis court, and start to work on hours of sports. Every hour I practice on tennis court, I will know that it takes hard work to build muscle, and learn new things, and have chance to meet people again. 

It is busy time of year on tennis court. I could not name hundreds of players, but surprisingly people can remember a few girls's name easily. Today the player smiled to me and called my name Julia, but I could not tell his name. We used to play together at least 5 or 6 times last few year, over 4 hours, I still remembered a few years ago I talked to him, the first years he came to Vancouver as an immigrant, and he started to play tennis again. 

Those players really make me stay healthy and happy. I just do not have a lot of time to play double matches, I spend most of time on rally with one person, or against wall and chat with people on the court. I need to finish at least one hour of sports training. I am trying to cover all strokes, running and also talk to various people. 

Algorithm performance

I have to push myself hard to develop some drills to help me work on hard level algorithm and data structure.

One thing I like to do is to meet more people this weekend through mock interview. Let me learn something from the peer or try to teach something and share some programming skills to the peer. One peer a time.

I am looking for happy Julia, laugh loudly on tennis court, people call me Sharapova all the time. It is called grunting in tennis.