2010年9月30日

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看了个前海规划的小宣传片,..~
有小小憧憬,
不知以后的深圳市中心会是怎样咧...

罗湖已经衰败了,
老爸很狗屎运地搬到现在的市中心,
十几年后市中心又将再次西移,
而前海应该是最有希望成为永远的市中心吧~

大凡国际都市,好像有一些普遍规律.
沿海,有穿越市区的江河,
便利的交通.
london, NYC, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai.
前海就在西部靠海,在深港机场中途,
(不过高铁站还是在福田)
比以前的市中心更具潜力啊~

希望有一些公园啊湖啊博物馆啊在前海吧~
一些摩天大楼, 低层高档住宅,
观景餐厅,自行车道和绿化,
啊太美好了啊,不过我已经买不起了...

2010年9月27日

Fallacy of Large Numbers

无聊又再次想到这个问题~

Samuelson (1963) told a story inwhich he offered a colleague a better than 50-50 chance

of winning $200 or losing $100. The colleague rejected the bet, but said he would be
willing to accept a string of 100 such bets. Samuelson argued that the colleague was
irrationally applying the law of averages to a sum, and this perhaps has led to a more
widely held perception that accepting a sequence of good bets when a single one
would be rejected is a fallacy of large numbers.”

虽然samuelson名声在外,但第一次看到这个问题的时候还是觉得他的colleague很rational啊,而且还想股票市场其实也可以这样减少风险的 (i call it "diversification across time", 呃,有点像长期持有/定投)

quote一个叫Erol A. Peköz的人的一篇论文:

Since then a number of authors have studied this phenomenon. Samuelson (1989)

gave examples of utility functions where a single bet is unacceptable but a suf ciently
long nite sequence of good bets will be accepted. Also given were utility functions
where a long sequence of good bets is never acceptable: Consider the utility function
U(x)= −2−x
and bets giving a 50 percent chance of losing $1 or winning $(1 + );
for a suf ciently small > 0. It can be shown that expected utility decreases with
each additional bet made, even though the bets are favorable and the utility function
is increasing...
 
Here the author shows how things change if you

are allowed the option to quit early: Subject to some mild conditions, you
should essentially always accept a suf ciently long nite sequence of good
bets. Interestingly, the strategy of quitting when you get ahead does not perform
well, but quitting when you get behind does.
 
原因如下:
It is interesting to note that the strategy of quitting when you reach some large wealth

level does not perform well. This is because even with arbitrarily long sequences
of good bets, there can always be some small chance that the game ends with a very
large loss, and a utility function can always be found that magnifies this loss more than
enough to make the gameun acceptable.Oneuses the strategy of quitting whenever the
gambler's wealth goes below the starting wealth, and for sufficiently long sequences
of good bets, the bene t of large gains always eventually overwhelms the risk of
losses.

需要注意的是,股票投资每个时段不是independent的,所以这个fallacy不大适用.
假设适用的话,如果不是封闭基金的话,是有option随时quit的,因此输的人会继续
投资,赢的人会减少, 即止赚不止蚀, 这倒是很符合散户行为.

2010年9月25日

...

HKFBS的一个interview
竟然是5人group discussion

有个hku law的,
英语说快也没什么,还说得我听得清清楚楚,
law你妹啊!

then有个hku double degree的~
也是内地来的,蛮帅的哦,才year one.
聊了一会, 很有想法
广州省实的,我说我是深中的,
他说商院那一大堆深中的  =.=''
啊啊学弟妹们真牛啊啊啊~~

2010年9月23日

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risk neutral approach有点难的啊, 为什么会有个不care risk的universe... .. ... ...
不过看到这个就大概懂了,也不用深究了:
An arbitrage-free price is not necessarily a fair price, or the correct price; it is only a market consistent price.

2010年9月22日

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yesterday when i came back to hall, waiting for the lift,
saw a tomboy,
delicate "hand face", super white, short hair dyed blonde,
beautiful mandible curve,
average hk girl height, tight jeans, canvas shoes,
chest like a little boy,
and smiles like an angel

I was thinking, Jesus, she was the most pretty girl I had met so far.

2010年9月19日

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went home this weekend...



过关的时候, 被抽查了iphone4
竟然要10% duty  !
日... 最悲剧的是我没人民币,于是要被扣在仓库,起码一个星期才能拿了
某同学还赶着要呢...

幸亏后来发现有熟人,
星期天就拿回来了,还少交了税.
guanxi的重要性啊!

看到香港人的自用ipad也要duty,还是20%
无语了.
最近好严啊~~

2010年9月14日

More Money Than God


Recommended by Mankiw and, well, me.
A nicely written narrative style book about HF
Focus on history of HFs and their charming founders.

Gotta say, the writter is brilliant!
vivid description, beautiful words
insights about the fund men's thinking

too bad i don hv enough time to finish it...

2010年9月12日

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考完雅思啦!
口语碰到一个蛮nice的老师, 希望无大碍啦~
给我十分钟,在一个hotel room, 也就那样吧 (不要乱想,咳咳)

新学期啦~ 看书看notes找工作都要跟上!!!

2010年9月5日

Step Up 3D


3D的街舞也没什么特别,
男主女主延续这系列一贯风格

女主在戏里灰常attractive
但是戏外好像...呃...
这难道就是所谓的演技好?

2010年9月4日

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为了把护照拿给聪哥,"被回家"了一天...
聪哥也真坎坷,内地签还没弄好, 只好用护照+印尼落地签过关
上次还是柬埔寨呢,现在流行印尼了  =.='

还得从脏乱差的罗湖过关,
不过还好,除了聪哥请吃汉拿山外,
还在hk海关见到漂亮的公务员姐姐!