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 say Mark Ghuneim’s ”12 Graphs of Christmas“ on Mashable, are excellent examples of charts that say it all:
“ As the most measurable, social year in human history, the tools of 2009 showed us how fast something can catch on, who is talking about what and how small the world has become. In that spirit, we have created some data visualizations to show how Christmas buzz is taking shape and what products are being talked about on the web. “
I’m an impatient brat who unwraps pressies 1 day before Père Noël’s date of approval. So, this being 1 day before the 5th day of Christmas, let me present my favourite five gold graphs:
1. Christmas is everywhere
2. Tweets.. no tricks
3. Battle of Bulging Buyers: Kindle vs iPhone
4. Obama or Claus: Who’s the fairest of ‘em all?
(See lead image)5. 12 days of Twitmas
More here.
Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noël!
thangdynasty is a work-in-progress maintained by an accidental equity trader whose brief foray into the world of investments turned out… not so brief.
Although unmotivated by the senseless pursuit of money in and for itself, she remains sadistically intrigued by the complex anatomy stealthily at work behind the whole spectrum of Markets – Fine Art, Financial, Fish and Fools.
A budding art collector and supporter of emerging artists, she slogs to prevent collateral damage to her bank account resulting from occasional manic art buying sprees.