After a few hours of tinkering, cubegeek.net has finally been upgraded. The site is now better organized, faster and looks better. The Houston Cubing Association pages have been now put  on the cubegeek.net site. I designed a new front page with a slidshow effect with pictures. Go check it out! Any suggestions or feedback on the site and its design are appreciated

Its been 3 years since the crisis occured in late 2008. The Dow Jones had reached a low point of about 9,000 in 2008. The economy seems to be improving and prospering; the Dow Jones has blown past 12,000 in recent weeks. Unemployment levels are lower than before. Will something like this ever happen again? It probably will, according to Peter Thiel, Paypal’s...

What is the biggest trading market in the world? Stocks? Options? Futures? Not exactly. Trading currencies is actually the biggest trading market in the world. In fact, trillions of dollars are traded everyday by speculating on the prices of currencies. What is interesting to see is that you can trade a whole lot for just a little in the currencies market, thanks to...

Recently I have been using a new simulator tool I found on the Internet called “virtual trade” on the CBOE website. It is a pretty nice stimulator and gives you a wide array of options of trading. You can trade options, stocks, and futures as well as xspreads ( I don’t know what these are). I bought some stocks and got fairly low gains in the...

I recently got interested in game theory and I finally understood one of most popular examples in it:  Prisoners Dilemma. I find it quite exciting so I will explain it to you in the most simple way possible. Prisoner’s Dilemma: Basically, Billy Bob and Joe are caught while robbing Caesar’s palace in Las Vegas. Both Billy Bob and Joe are about to be sent...

I was digging through my computer files yesterday when I found my paper that I had written about the financial crisis. My teacher was not a big fan of the paper, but I think some of you might be interested in it so here is the link.