December 2009

Tis the season for 5 Gold Graphs

December 28, 2009

In my world - a veritable jungle of bulls, bears, stags, butterflies and greedy pigs, charts are to traders as oxygen is to… all other living things. I scan through an average of 20 charts per day: economic data, forex majors, stocks, bonds, gold, crude oil, indices, wata-wata. A simple example of my daily dose of eye candy: Being an incidental connoisseur of charts, I must [...]

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For the Love of Food

December 24, 2009

If there is any common link between the Singaporean and French ancenstry, it would lie in the greedy realm of Gastronomie or simply put, the glorious love of food. Darwin {survival of the fittest} + Malthus {dismal economics} = Eat to Live For our forefathers and not a small percentage of the current world population, this psuedo-mathematical axiom represents [...]

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Impact of Dubai Crisis on the Dollar

December 23, 2009

In my December 2 post, I wrote about how the crisis triggered by Dubai World, would lead to a strengthening greenback (USD). A picture speaks 1000 words. The 20-day intraday chart of my favourite trading pair, the USD/JPY (lead image), tells a 3-points story:

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5 Things I Never Knew About Malacca

December 21, 2009

Chicken rice balls, durian chendol, Jonkers Street and … Little Nonya. These were the Top 4 synonyms that slid to the tips of my friends’ tongues when I mentioned Malacca. And voila! - a portable 4-pointer guiding companion etched onto my memory. Or so I thought. The superficiality of my knowledge of Malacca could not have lacked more depth. Without beating around the [...]

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Singapore Artist: Eros de la Astro

December 3, 2009

I am not usually enthusiastic about receiving snail mails these days.  Aside from bills, bills and more bills, I have my complimentary bloomberg magazine to look forward at best… and faux property guru junk mail, at worst. So I was delighted when a package from a local artist who goes by the tagline: Eros de la Astro, finally arrived at my [...]

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5 Things You Should Know About the Dubai Debt Crisis

December 2, 2009

For 6 years, the Dubai Dream powered Dubai’s astounding growth, which manifested in extravagant displays of ostentatious living epitomized by infamous images of  gold-plated toilet flushes. 25th November doused this dream by officially hanging a big question mark on the sustainability of Dubai’s growth model when Dubai World requested a 6 months moratorium (delay) on its debt. The announcement [...]

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