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Re: Reuters Reporter Is Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady Tweeting for Obama 2012

aviat72 — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:29:33 -0000

The country quotas are not for Citizenship but for Permanent Residency, the first step towards becoming a Citizen. And the queues are much longer for immigrants from China, India, Philippines and Mexico; applicants born in European countries do not have to wait in a queue to become eligible for get a PR visa.

Some applicants born in European countries may not be eligible for the Diversity Visa lottery because the number of immigrants from their country is already high enough. Search for DoS Visa bulletin.

http://travel.state.gov/vis...

Re: Reuters Reporter Is Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady Tweeting for Obama 2012

aviat72 — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:15:48 -0000

The issue is that your definition of "ethics" is so far off the center that the primary response it elicits is ridicule. Have you even bothered to look at the time line of her tweets?

Till the elections result came out she did not say anything positive about Obama. After the elections result cam out she RETWEETED some other news headlines about the results, and an article from a British publication. And this is her personal account not a Reuters account.

And that is supposed to be a violation of journalistic ethics??

Re: Reuters Reporter Is Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady Tweeting for Obama 2012

aviat72 — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:26:31 -0000

"We're all in this together" was what Obama said after his victory in tweet. The reporter added 4 more years, and retweeted it. And her retweet of Obama's victory tweet is supposed to be partisan??

I was surprised at the result, but after seeing comments like above I am beginning to understand why this is happening. It is not the policies or the media, it is how ignorant and angry the GOP messengers sound. The rise of social media and non-traditional media channels had made it all too visible.

Re: Reuters Reporter Is Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady Tweeting for Obama 2012

aviat72 — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:16:26 -0000

Did anyone of you actually read her tweets? She tweets that she just voted and posts a picture. She retweets a tweet about incoming election results during the count, and then retweets about the results after the results were out. And that is supposed to be a liberal media bias?

What should have been shocking that 73% of Asians voted for Obama. This is a demographics with above average income, education and below average need for handouts; but even they can not relate to what the GOP has become. The anger, rage, and exclusiveness which has come to symbolize the GOP is what is sinking the ship.

Wake Up before it is too late.

Re: Reuters Reporter Is Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady Tweeting for Obama 2012

aviat72 — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:12:24 -0000

Did it ever strike you that a person who just voted is already a US citizen?
It is people like you who are sinking the ship with your ill-thought comments. Stop providing MSM with fodder, and look inwards for once.

Re: India is heading for Mars: it doesn’t need British aid money to pay the bills

aviat72 — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:34:42 -0000

You are acting as if the rails were built to help Indians. The only reason they were built was to transport raw materials from India and finished goods from England. And do you really think that there were no bridges in India before the British?

Do not be under any illusion that the British did good to India. Till the British came India's held about 25% share of global GDP; it was reduced to low single digit when the left.

When asked to send some food to prevent deaths in Bengal Churchill retorted to "Is Gandhi dead yet". 3 Million Indians died while hundreds of thousands were fighting in WW-II. Who will hold Churchill responsible for his war crimes?

Re: Brinks Out.

aviat72 — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:53:43 -0000

Thank You Miss. B.

Re: Charts of Interest: Backdrop For a Bounce

aviat72 — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:32:43 -0000

Congratulations. Being able to hold on to winners is an art not easy to master. Hope you have many more to come.

Re: Going Going Gold

aviat72 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:14:29 -0000

Happy New Year RB.

Re: Time to Check Out Natural Gas

aviat72 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:09:55 -0000

Happy New Year Ms. B.

Re: Time to Check Out Natural Gas

aviat72 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:41:13 -0000

Good for you. I hope Ashok too held some after his GOOG experience.

I think Steve Jobs death and the subsequent hype with the biography and what not, would have helped Apple in sales. At least some sales were pulled ahead as the mind-share which Apple got worldwide was amazing. I have not looked at the next quarter's guidance, but if the market is pricing in another blowout when the next earning is announcement is near, then it might be a good fade.

Re: Time to Check Out Natural Gas

aviat72 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:36:44 -0000

Deej:
The call you were short was well in the money. So they can chose to exercise it if they want. What I do not understand is why they would do that instead of selling it since there is some time premium left which they lose when they exercise instead of selling. Very likely it may have been some forced account liquidation; someone may have been short a lot and using calls as a hedge, and when they decided to liquidate they simply exercise it instead of taking the overnight risk. Or the bid-ask spread was so poor that it made sense for them to exercise than sell the call.

It is very likely that you actually ended up making money on the trade since the call you were short was exercised and you got to keep the time-premium. So it is actually a win-win situation for you. The calls they exercised where worth more than what they got when they exercised; if you had bought them back you would have paid more.

Re: Connect to a FreeNAS Samba or AFP share on Mac OS X Lion [Workarounds] [Updated]

aviat72 — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:29:15 -0000

http://support.apple.com/kb...

Summary
Learn how to enable legacy authentication methods for the AFP client in OS X Lion so that you can connect to older AFP servers.

Re: Time For a Breather

aviat72 — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:00:00 -0000

I have some January ratio spreads on. If we do get a rally after a 60-70% haircut it can easily retrace 40-50% of the fall and end up in the 200s. Cost of a $15 spread in January is about $3-4. It has the potential to return 10x.

Re: Time For a Breather

aviat72 — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:58:40 -0000

Good evening Ms.B
Hope everything is great here.

The volume this week was really anemic and died down as the week went on.

ZeroHedge has a very interesting article based on a DB note about how the sale of US based assets by European banks to de-leverage is resulting in a bid in Euro as the USDs are converted into Euros. And with a lot of trading driven by correlation trades, the rocketship Euro has helped lift all risk assets. The European credit markets are still not following the equity rally and that is where all the problems start from. The TED spread chat on the right should tell the story.

So as Ms. B says, we need to be cautious. The good thing is that we are focused on earnings instead of Europe. The bad thing is that if the companies come out with poor forecasts, the last ray of hope for the market will be gone.

Re: Focus on the Forest

aviat72 — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:11:32 -0000

http://www.bloomberg.com/ne...

AAPL and the challenges it will face in the Indian market (the ultimate Value for Money market.....)

Re: SANDERS: India's perfect storm of problems

aviat72 — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:36:40 -0000

Uncle Sol:

Though I do not expect much from a cold warrior, this particular article looks like some 5th grader cut and paste some negative headlines from Google News.

1. Though the Nehru-Gandhi family has ruled India for long, it is not the only political entity around. It is high time that some new Indian leadership flourishes to end their hegemony. I for one am rooting for the end of the rule of the N-G family.

2. Sol failed to mention that while the fighter contract is still in limbo, India has already ordered C17s, C130s and P8s worth almost an equal amount from the US.

3. Further Sol did not find it significant to mention that the F-18, a fighter designed to operate from aircraft carriers operating at sea-level had a tough time operating from high-altitude Indian bases during the trial. Boeing offered to replace the engines with some newer gen EPE engines which however are yet to be tested. Fact of the matter is that the US offerings were half a generation behind the European offerings and it showed during trials.

4. Hazare's tactics worked because he had the unqualified moral support of the masses, rich or poor. Even the biggest defenders of the ruling elite knew that they were trying to defend the indefensible. Like Gandhi's struggles 70-80 years ago Hazare's movement is a mass movement which gets its credibility from the truth, not some short term alliances.

5. India is certainly at cross-roads but the direction it is taking is right one. What is critical is whether the Western powers who influence India and their Indian lackeys allow India to follow her rightful place or continue to undermine her. The Congress/UPA is at a critical juncture. If it tries to play divisive politics to shore up its image, it can hurt the country. However, if does a U-Turn and follows the wave, it can do wonders.

6. The choice is very similar to what the British faced a few generation ago. At that time they chose to divide India to create Pakistan which would be their spear in the Cold War, and against India. The policy worked for some time but now is biting the West hard, deep and painfully in the rear-end; 10 years after 9/11 the West still has no clue on how to tame the Jehadi monster they created.

7. They face another choice now, and I hope Western thinkers do the right thing and encourage the creation of a stronger, more equitable Indian state, and reduce the efforts to undermine her.

It is critical to do that to:
-> Maintain a democratic counterbalance to the autocratic forces which rule the region (communists-Islamists)
-> Provide a counter-balance to the rise of China which is aggressively fighting the West for access to resources while increasingly intimidating those in her neighborhood

Perhaps most important is that most Western democratic societies are heading in the same direction when it comes to their ethnic and social construction; most Western nations are no longer singular constructs. President Obama won the election even though 56% of White Americans voted against him.

A strong India will provide hope that a multi-cultural, multi-religious state founded on some core universal principles can thrive. However a failure of the Indian state will not provide hope that our world in the West will continue to exist in the political form it does now. So for the sake of pluralistic, democratic societies the world over, find ways to support the Indian nation, instead of undermining it.

Re: AB 889 (Ammiano and V. Manuel Pérez): Domestic work employees. (California Assembly Bill)

aviat72 — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:39:22 -0000

This bill is very likely supported by day-care centers and old-age care centers to add hassles where none existed. While the original intent of the bill may have been honorable, it is very likely going to have a lot of unintended consequences.

Mr. Anderson, what kind of "incredible personal risk" does a baby-sitter or a house keeper face? And do you think that the 18 year old community college going kid will have an easier time finding a gig on the side after this law is in place?

Let the free market work in a framework where laws which are already on the book are honored. On one hand we have "sanctuary cities" where illegal aliens are legal. And on the other hand the state wants to regulate all aspects of our lives. As a result the underground economy flourishes depriving the state of vital tax revenues.

Abuse of domestic workers will not end if they are undocumented; all this regulation does is create an additional barrier for those who may want to hire some domestic help.

When will this hypocrisy end?

Re: Charts of Interest

aviat72 — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:18:42 -0000

Thanks Ms. B. Though I still do not actively trade them. Your list helps me look at the right charts.

Re: Are We There Yet?

aviat72 — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:26:44 -0000

Thanks Ms. B. We did break out of the triangle though the volume was depressed. London was closed today which might explain some of the low volume. I have started to pay less emphasis on breadth because of the preponderance of basket/ETF trading which tends to life all boats; and with the risk on/off type of environment the impact gets magnified. That being said, we have the NFP this Friday. FWIW the breadth oscillators are approaching overbought territory also. How do you read the short term picture?
The 75 WMA is also right here. If you go back a few years, this has been the dividing line between bull-bear markets
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc...
Link to Jayhawk's longer time frame chart
http://screencast.com/t/z9m...

Re: Are We There Yet?

aviat72 — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:06:45 -0000

Hi There Ms. B:

Hope Irene does her dance without too much damage.

What do you think of this giant triangle. Isnt' this a continuation pattern downwards?

Note that we are retracing 80% and not 76.4%. That is one sign of algos. They will push at the logical points where you expect stops and probe them before backing off. During the high-vol period I have seen this intra-day very often. Test -> Hold -> Test Harder -> Break-> Reverse.
The image did not load so here is the twitter lower resolution link
twitter.com/#!/aviat72/stat...

Re: Bouncing From the Abyss

aviat72 — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:04:15 -0000

You fix them yourself??
E39 is the king. Get it if you can find a nice specimen, though get a 530 or the V8 540. 525 was a bit under-powered. But they were the last of the pure bimmers.

Re: Downgrade Tremors Shake Global Markets

aviat72 — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:09:11 -0000

From Bespoke

S&P 500 Last Hour Positive ReversalsWith a rally of nearly 5% in the last hour of trading, the S&P 500 staged one of the sharpest positive reversals in the last 25 years. Looking back at the last 25 years, there have only been five other days where the S&P 500 was down at 3PM only to rally 3% or more and finish the day in positive territory. But you don’t even have to go back 25 years to find them all. As shown in the table below, all five similar reversals occurred between January 2008 and February 2009. Looking at the S&P 500’s performance following prior occurrences shows mixed returns. One thing you can count on, however, is that the volatility is likely to continue tomorrow. In all five prior positive reversals, the S&P 500 saw a move of at least +/- 1% the following day.

Bear Market rallies or just a reflection of HFT bots.

Re: The Bears Turn Up the Heat

aviat72 — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:10:44 -0000

Hi Hobo:
Congrats on the trade. Could you post a bigger chart showing the anchors of the Fib lines drawn. That will really help.

Re: The Bears Turn Up the Heat

aviat72 — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:37:39 -0000

Congratulations!! Hope you get a lot of smiles from your bundle of joy.