I am a huge fan of automating my stock strategies as it usually means that I won’t have to worry that I keyed in something too slowly on my phone or computer when trading. Or worse I made a mistake when buying or shorting a security like what happened below! On the bright side that mistake cost me less than $5 with commission. So what is ScaleTrader? ScaleTrader is a tool that interactive brokers has to scale into and out…
This week I wanted to continue what a friend showed me with options and try to change up some of my stock trading strategy to include more options which have historically been a loss for me. I am trying a short strangle option on CMG and PCLN. For more reading on the strategy read The Options Guide article here. PCLN – JUL29 1277.5/1372.5, 2.50 CMG – JUL29 417.5/437.5, 1.95 My thoughts on this, PCLN seems like the safest bet as the…
This week I am giving options another try with a different strategy, a naked call. It involves selling a call option without owning the underlying asset. More about it here. Despite the risk the underlying asset is trading far out of the money. Historically I have not had much luck with options, but with some guidance and input of a friend I am giving them a try again. AMZN – 15JUL16 750.0, 0.90
I normally stick to servers but in dealing with Cisco UCS Chassis I have found myself in a position to where I have to learn more and more on the network side as the line seems to be getting blurred with some of the devices attached. This is a good thing for me as I can make more gradual steps to learn more. I found myself in a position where I had to change the UCS virtual IP address, here…
So you fire up the Cisco UCS Emulator and notice that you can’t add or remove the Fabric Interconnect. It’s a pretty quick fix to change it, but it requires that the UCS Emulator reboots when it’s done. The first step is to mouse over the cog icon and click on Change Fabric Interconnect. It will load a page that looks like the following, the emulator comes with a couple of choices you can choose from. Once you click submit…
Believe it or not there are many features of VMWare I do not get to use every day, however one that I have been neglecting other than to pass a VCP exam I had and be familiar with it was the Customization Specification Manager… I have been missing out. This weekend I had some extra time and wanted to see how powerful this tool is and put it to good use against one my Windows Server 2012 R2 template I…
The first part about setting up the lab in general is deploying the OVA template you have downloaded from the Cisco website. Also ensure that you have Java Runtime Environment 1.6 or higher installed. This guide makes the assumption you know enough about VMWare to deploy an OVA/F on your own. I downloaded the 3.0.2cPE1 from https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-57526. This usually only takes a minute or two. Once deployed you will probably notice the Cisco UCS Platform Emulator runs on top of…
I wanted to share some of the PowerShell Modules that I will be going over the next few months as I learn and share the experiance and headaches I run into; Cisco UCS PowerTool – Available here. It requires a Cisco login, a little more info can be found here. VMWare PowerCLI – Available here. – Eventually I will start covering 6, instead of 5.5. Like Cisco, it also requires an account. NetApp PowerShell Toolkit – Available here. Also requires…
Despite last weeks frustration with enhanced LACP and vDS through vSphere PowerCLI, some things can still be automated while others will have to be done by hand. I looked into the deployment of PortGroup’s as the next logical step, here is what I came up with so far: # Create Portgroups Get-VDSwitch -Name “vTest” | New-VDPortGroup -Name “Windows Servers” -PortBinding Static -Numports 32 -VlanID 100 Get-VDSwitch -Name “vTest” | New-VDPortGroup -Name “Linux Servers” -PortBinding Static -Numports 32 -VlanID 101 This…
This week as the year winds up I was experimenting with vSphere PowerCLI and noticed that when I go to create a Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS) through PowerShell I am able to create it, but it does not support enhanced LACP out of the box. It actually behaves identically to how it would if I created it in the fat client instead of the web client. # Create VDS New-VDSwitch -Name “vtest” -Location “Las Vegas” -LinkDiscoveryProtocol “CDP” -LinkDiscoveryProtocolOperation “Listen” -NumUplinkPorts…