Thanks to Zecco's unlimited free trades month, I completed 225 trades in October. Yep, I managed to make a tidy profit. I'm not sure how I'm going to manage with only 10 free trades/month from now on.
And of course, still staying true to my original plan - no short sells, no options trading, nothing except straight out stock trades that kill the bear's buzz
Ok, so I do like Virgin America. A lot. Based on only 4 flights so far (between San Francisco SFO and New York JFK, and San Francisco SFO and Las Vegas' McCarran Airport - LAS)
But I have a couple of minor issues. First of all, they've started charging $2 for headsets. With all the great programming (and not to mention the original Doom video game!), this is idiotic. Just add $2 to your tickets, and stop asking for handouts! Some people will use their own earphones, some will read a book or do something else... and some, like me, will get just a little pissed off.
Second - no free food. Pay for your food. I guess I shouldn't even expect this any more, even on 6 hour flights. But it does irk me just a little bit.... I expect more from Virgin America.
Thanks to Zecco's unlimited free trades month (October), I've been trading up a storm. I have already passed 200 trades for the month (and I started trading on October 6th, since I was traveling on a business trip before that).
Quite fun! And profitable - so far I have closed a profit of just over $1,050. And two more days to go, so lets see where I end up. One thing is for sure - I am going to be in for a LOT of pain come tax time.
This morning, while on my nth flight this year back from New York, I found out I was sitting next to Bob Dana, Virgin America's CFO!
What's quite interesting is that we were sitting in the economy class. Granted I feel Virgin America's economy class is better than almost all other US airlines, this was still quite funny. Turns out Virgin has their executives travel on economy. They do get one perk - the exit row. (apparently they fly business/ first when they are on Virgin Atlantic, which is good).
I am impressed. This was a 6 hour flight, and the CFO was sitting in the aisle seat in economy, typing on his laptop, with his Bose headset on his head in between friendly stops by the airline stewards and stewardesses. And Bob's an ex investment banker.... so he is probably used to the good things in life.
Go Virgin!
Here's Bob in a presentation outlining Virgin America, including their mission statement.
Sequoia, which can be credited for starting the rounds of layoffs going on in startup land, just gave AdMob almost $16 Million. Nice!
Omar Hamoui's AdMob focuses on mobile advertising. I guess Sequoia thinks that is a growing market, and one where (at least where AdMob is concerned) the doom and gloom scenario they're painting in general doesn't really apply.
Michael Dell says he is very strong on Dell's future.... having just cut 8,500 salaries, I guess he can definitely be certain on the personnel cost front
Ah, the mighty get hit by the recession, too. Google has shut down one of its cafes, the Off the Grid.
Valleywag and the other blogs are talking about rumored layoffs, too. That would make things very interesting indeed.
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