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The Forex Market

I just found something that may interest you if you’re thinking of buying and selling currencies.

The Forex market is a non-stop cash market where currencies of nations are traded, typically via brokers. Foreign currencies are constantly and simultaneously bought and sold across local and global markets and traders’ investments increase or decrease in value based upon currency movements. Foreign exchange market conditions can change at any time in response to real-time events

The investor’s goal in Forex trading is to profit from foreign currency movements. Forex trading or currency trading is always done in currency pairs, which seems to be going under constant change within a certain range for a period of time. It is estimated that anywhere from 70%-90% of the FX market is speculative. In other words, the person or institution that bought or sold the currency has no plan to go by in taking such decision. This is the major reason why people undergo a lot of loss in Forex.  If planned properly then Forex nothing but, a Money Minting Machine.

To invest in such high risk business market, the need and use of professional help comes naturally to mind.The basic business involves only prediction of future prices and a probability of change in the ratio of value of different currencies all over the world. This kind of prediction can be done very difficult for any human being but such calculation are very simple when done on a computer, the only thing needed is an interface/software through which the computer can interact and gives prediction of fall and rise in prices. Forex software of such kind have been under development for a while now and finally eToro is launched. eToro’s is extremely friendly interface which you can monitor, share, and discuss your trading activity while enjoying the latest financial updates and has the latest technology and uses the a highly developed algorithm to track and assist in price management. This easy to use platform allows you to use real or virtual money to execute real-time trades with a click of a button.  What’s more the software is available for Free Download too so try it and judge it for yourself.

June 21st, 2008 Posted by Lugatz | Business | no comments

Obama Made It

I’m just thrilled. 

Between you and me, since Bush senior - skip a president - then Bush junior, I looked at Americans as a whole to be a bunch of red-necked yahoos.  You know the kind - hillbillies.  Oh there were exceptions but, if you were to believe the right-wing holier-than-thou group, the TV shows, the movies, and the news channels, it’s OK to carry guns, shoot first, ask questions later.  Just make sure you’re in church every Sunday and you read that Bible every night.  Hypocrites.  It isn’t by chance there’s a Bible in every hotel and motel in the country.  Why?  Why not a book of poetry or Buddhist chants?

Since Bush II, I had completely written off our neighbour.  I’ve not been back for a vacation since then.  In my opinion, that government is comprised of nothing but a set of murderers and thieves.  They will never pay for their crimes either, you can bet.  About that deck of cards they gloated over? I have my own set I’d like to pass out.

And then, along came Obama.

What a breath of fresh air.  Perhaps because he’d been exposed to another culture.  Perhaps because he’s not a washed-down version of a person of colour - his father was a real Kenyan and his mother was a real white Kansan.  Therefore he hasn’t that chip on his shoulders that so many people of colour have.  He also doesn’t have that weird “black” accent that so many have, either.  In fact, his “blackness” is a non-issue.   What a honey. 

Don’t get me wrong, I like Hillary, but we all know Hillary.  She’s not an unknown.  She’s a Clinton, after all.  She’s extremely capable, extremely smart and a real hard worker but, she’s not a breath of fresh air. 

Now, on the the White House, Barak Obama! 

I’m already planning my next winter vacation.

June 8th, 2008 Posted by Lugatz | Personal Opinions, politics | no comments

The Ugly Duckling

How can I describe her? When I first met her, she looked “cheap”, “hard”. There was that do-it-yourself bleach job, for starters.  She suffered from acne. Her voice was tinny, jarring, guttural, clipped and sometimes, shrieking.   Although very fair-skinned she wore heavy black eyeliner on her upper lids.  She painted her eyebrows black.  Her skin was oily so, by mid-day, the painted eyebrows glistened and sometimes smeared.  She talked tough.  You’d think she had slept with every man in town.  Years later, I learned she’d been a virgin all that time.  Maybe she wanted to draw attention to herself.  Well, she did but in a negative way. 

Jane was very thin yet her hips and thighs were ample.  She had no bust to speak of.  Furthermore, she seemed weary of life, although she was only nineteen at the time.  Jane was, at best, a curiosity. Some of the girls chided her. Some, like me, were curious and wanted to get to know her better. Despite outward appearances Jane was friendly and looked like she desperately wanted to be liked. Most of the girls shied away from her. I guess it was that hard edge that turned some people off. Tough girls are hard to like. Read more…

May 19th, 2008 Posted by Lugatz | For Women Only, Musings, Nostalgia | no comments

Hell Explained by Chemistry Student

This is obviously a reprint but I thought it was so funny, for those of you who haven’t seen it, please read on. 

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let’s look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle’s Law statest that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. 

This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, ‘It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,’ and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct……leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting ‘Oh my God.’

May 17th, 2008 Posted by Lugatz | Humor, Religion, Wild, Wonderful | no comments

Barak Obama is My Man

Barak Obama is perfect.  His mother white, his father black, spent formative years in another culture, exposed to other religions, brilliant lawyer, socially conscientious, inspiring orator, statesman qualities, sound judgement.  His one problem is that he insists on keeping the high road.  No low-life gutter politicking for him.  That may hurt him in the end.

It would be nice to have a respected and respectful statesman in the White House, for a change.  I’m so tired of the loud-mouthed war mongers.  You want your people safe from harm?  STOP MAKING ENEMIES!  START MAKING FRIENDS - REAL FRIENDS - not the kind that do your dirty work for you and, when you no longer need them, you arrest them on trumped-up charges, or even kill them.  Stop electing gangsters like the Bush’s, senior and junior.

I just wish I could vote for Barak but I’m Canadian.


April 27th, 2008 Posted by Lugatz | Personal Opinions | no comments