I met the girls for lunch for the first time today!

I took an early lunch today and picked up some food and took it to the girls for lunch today and it was really amazing. They were so happy and excited to see me and they were really proud to have me there. I don't think I've ever seen Abby smile and talk so much. Ally just kept hugging me and holding my hand and telling me she loved me. I wish they were always so happy and nice to me! I brought them some breadsticks and cheese from Subway/Noble Romans with a juice box for each one. They were really hungry because they did not eat breakfast this morning because they knew I was meeting them for lunch and they wanted to be hungry. After lunch we went out to the playground and it was really neat to see how they played and acted around their friends. Girls are much different than boys. Jack was the "ring leader" when he was that age and everyone kind'of following him around and tried to get him to do stuff with them. He had to keep telling them "no thanks" so he could stay by my side and be with me. The girls were totally different. All of their friends flocked around me and wanted me to play with them. But Ally and Abby wouldn't let go of my hands, so I really couldn't do much. We did try to play a game of "hot potato", but that didn't work out very well, because some little girl named "Mira" (I think) kept taking the ball and trying to boss everyone around and tell them where to stand and what to do. She was really annoying! Finally I took the girls aside and told them to not do what Mira wanted to do and to do whatever THEY wanted to do. Then Mira comes up and tries to listen in on our conversation and I finally had to tell her that I was trying to have a private conversation with my daughters and to go somewhere else! That girl will probably be President some day, but I'd kill her if she was my kid! After we finally got away from Mira, we had a really good time. They kept asking me to watch them do things. I watched Abby do the monkey bars, helped Ally do them, watched them both climb the rock wall, climbed some dome thing with them, and took turns pushing each of them (and a couple of their friends) on a swing.  They took me to their room and showed me where each one sits.  They each gave me a huge hug and kiss and Abby did not let go.  I had to pull her away from me!

It was one of the best lunches I've ever had and I can't wait to do it again soon.  I love those girls so much.

The Brokenness of VXX

This is in response to Jared Woodard's post "The Unbrokenness of VXX":

http://condoroptions.com/2012/03/22/the-unbrokenness-of-vxx

I don't know enough about VXX to claim it is broken, but I would love to know why sometimes it doesn't follow the VIX very closely at all. 3/19/2012 and 3/20/2012 are prefect examples IMO.


Here is the 5 min. chart of the VIX on 3/19 and 3/20:



And here is the 5 min. chart of the VXX on 3/19 and 3/20:




Those charts don't look very similar at all to me. The VIX clearly closed higher on 3/20 than it did on 3/19, but the VXX clearly closed LOWER on 3/20 than it did on 3/19.

I would love to understand why this happened so I could trade accordingly.

Thanks Jared!
Jeff