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  • ORB on UPWK

    ORB on UPWK

    In “Day Trading for a Living”, Andrew Aziz talks about trading opening range breakouts (ORB) on 5 minutes, preferably 15 mins but not on 1 minute as it might be too volatile. Explaining the strategy is out of the scope of this article. You should be able to find a general ORB strategy online somewhere.…

  • SMMT Flat Bottom Wedge

    SMMT Flat Bottom Wedge

    SMMT started forming a bull flag after a curl up. I thought the 1 minute would break out when it started going green after a red candle but alas, this was a minute setup. The first red candle appeared on 5 min. Usually there’s 3 red candles (or 1 depending on the strength of the…

  • ABCD pattern

    The chart on the left is 1 min and right is 5 min . On 1 min, there is a flat-top wedge forming. which is generally a continuation pattern (from what I have read) but there was a HUGE red candle and

  • Why everyone is afraid of oil paints

    When I started painting, I worked with acrylics for quite some time before I gathered the courage to try out oils. This is true for a lot of people I know. The stories of how a lot of professional artists got cancer from oil paints certainly doesn’t help. My first mentor (who is a professional…

  • Misadventures with varnish

    I like experimenting. It keeps life interesting. You discover something new and get excited. It advances the world, ushers in a new era of new found knowledge expanding the horizon of human understanding. It does not come without a cost though. Sometimes the cost is too much to bear. You start questioning your life decisions…

  • Missing package errors after upgrading Go

    Very recently, I upgraded Go from 1.11 to 1.12 and all hell broke lose. I kept getting errors of missing packages in golang.org/x/tools , etc . The solution was to re-install Go. This can be done easily on OSX with

  • Go – Finding and removing duplicate files on a Mac

    My laptop’s hard drive is plagued with the same family pics stored in different folders. So, I wrote a simple app in Go to take care of this for me. The app does this by comparing MD5 hashes of files. Usage Assuming you saved the code in a file called main.go, here is how you…

  • Gogland build expired (renamed to Goland)

    This confused me for a few minutes so I am writing this for those who have the same issue. Jetbrains renamed Gogland Goland. They also expired Gogland build. So you have to go to their site and download Goland and use that. Remove Gogland completely from your computer

  • How are paints made for various painting mediums?

    Paints are made by adding pigment (color) to something that will help it stick to the surface of a canvas (or anything else it can be painted on). Color Color, also referred to as pigment, is a powder with a specific color. For artist grade and premium grade paints this is ground up metal in…

  • Oil vs Acrylic – What’s easier to clean?

    Acrylics are much easier to clean than oils (and cheaper). Brushes With acrylics, you can get away with using just water to clean your brushes (depending on how thick you laid your paint). Most of the times, this is true even for impasto techniques. For oils, you have to use turpentine (as oil paints don’t…