AAStocks Chart Codes

AAStocks is a popular stock market charting platform in Hong Kong. The market that it covers include HK shares, US shares, and currencies. Its charts are one of the most frequently embedded gadgets among different websites.

Since the charts could be custom-made with different indicators, periods, and so on, it helps to know the meaning of each table values which is retrieved from the hyperlink, and the available values it has.

CSV format for Google Calendar

CSV format for Google Calendar contains the following elements:

-- Subject: title of your event or activity.
-- Start Date: the starting date of the event or activity.
-- Start Time: the starting time of the event or activity.
-- End Date: the ending date of the event or activity.
-- End Time: the ending time of the event or activity.
-- All Day Event: TRUE if an all-day event, else FALSE.
-- Description: the description of the event or activity.
-- Location: the location of the event or activity.
-- Private: TRUE if it is not seen in shared calendars, else FALSE.

Excel Lookup to the Nearest, Above or Below

This article is about how use lookup function to find the nearest item above or below in Excel or Calc. Currently, the default function in VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP only rounds to the smaller value, so it takes a few tricks to round the value to the closest one above or below.

Let us consider the following practical example. Suppose there is a marathon race, and in case if you have no idea, it has a running distance of 42 km. The organiser has made the following rule regarding first aid. At each interval of 7 km, including the start and the finish, there shall be an first-aid station which helps the injured runners.In other words, there are altogether 7 stations in total. It is expressed in the table below:

The Power of Affirmations

Scott Adams is the famous creator of comic strip Dilbert, and he is also a great fan of self affirmations. In this following video segment, it is told that Scott has used affirmations to achieve great things in his life, including winning in the stock market, getting into a great university, becoming a successful cartoonist, and writing more than one New York Times bestsellers.

Basically, what he did was to wake up every morning and wrote down his goal dozens of times, and in present tense. For example, at one point he wanted to make money in the stock market, so he wrote, “I, Scott, have made money in the stock market.” And sure enough, one night the name of a big winner came to him, and all he had to do was to buy it.

Graphic Issues of Red Alert 2 in Window 10

A lot of people have downloaded the Red Alert 2 & Yuri’s Revenge bundle from Origin. They often find that the Yuri’s Revenge part has some problem with the graphics in Window 10.

If you choose a resolution bigger than 800 times 600, then the screens pressed against the left with black on the right. In addition to the “halved” screens, the screen with the game playing (at normal speed and without lag) is mis-coloured: everything is purple, red, green, and blue pixels like the game cannot decide what colored pixels go where.

Here are the steps to fix it:

Bill Meridian on Eclipses

Bill Meridian is a famous financial astrologer. Robert W. Colby, America’s foremost expert on technical analysis, wrote that Bill is “an internationally renowned financial researcher, fund manager, and designer of analytical software, including the first program developed for researching the correlation between time series data and cycles.”

In the following series of videos, he explains the predictive power of solar and lunar eclipses in mundane affairs. He used the natal charts of many different famous people in history to demonstrate his point. This is highly recommended if you are interested in mundane astrology.

The Pyramid Code

The Pyramid Code is a documentary series of 5 episodes that explores the pyramid fields and ancient temples in Egypt as well as ancient megalithic sites around the world looking for clues to matriarchal consciousness, ancient knowledge and sophisticated technology in a Golden Age.

The Pyramid Code features interviews with prominent scholars and authors in multidisciplinary fields: geology, physics, astrophysics, archeology, biological engineering, magnetic field theory, hieroglyphics, and Egyptology.

Bonacci on Astrotheology

Santos Bonacci is a musician based in Melbourne, Australia. He is also a modern proponent of astrology and biblical mysticism. In addition, he is also fluent in several languages, with Italian being his mother tongue.

Here is a wonderful series of lecture by Bonacci. It is divided into three parts. The first part is about the basics of Hebrew Astrology, including some argument for the study as a science. The second part reveals how the bible is written according to astrological principles. The third part is about astrology as an occult knowledge. If you are a fan of astrology, do not miss it.

Picking an Incorporation Date

According to famous astrologer Edward Johndro, there are two very important considerations in choosing the incorporation dates of any company. This article will explore his theory and see how it could be put into practice. Although the info here are mostly written for limited companies, it is also applicable to other ventures like starting a website or forming a group.

De-DRM with Calibre

Intrusive DRM often means ebooks you've purchased can only be read on one type of device, especially when it comes to the Amazon products like the Kindle Voyage.

Here's how to remove ebook DRM, so you can read your purchases on any of your multiple devices, including competing e-readers.

Sepharial’s Stock & Share Key

Below are the summaries and examples of Sepharial’s Stock & Share Key. The content is expanded and rearranged to make it easier to read. Many examples and diagrams are not included in the original article.

The Eclipses Rules

As famous English astrologer Sepharial said, “The longitude of an eclipsed luminary being noted, the subsequent transits of the major planets both by conjunction and opposition are valuable pointers as to the exact time at which an eclipse will eventuate, or events symbolised will be realised.” Therefore, to predict the future, one must take know of the importance of solar and lunar eclipses, and understand how they could be used to forecast events.

How to Study the Tunnel Thru the Air

The Tunnel Thru the Air, as many serious students of WD Gann would know, is the most important book that the great market forecaster had ever written. Published in 1927, it foretold the crash in 1929, and every turning point in the subsequent bear market until 1932. It did not only specified that the bottom would be in July 1932, but also predicted the number of points of each rally and correction!

The casual reader would see none of the above when they read it, because the information is well hidden in an otherwise ordinary love story. To decode this book, you must understand the coded language with which Gann hid his method. See the videos below:

Gann’s Coffee Letter

W. D. Gann is a famous trader and forecaster, who has made a lot of stunning predictions in both the markets and world affairs. However, he is also famous for disguising his method so that no one could understand how he actually does it. In the following rare instance, however, he showed one of his students a large portion of this prediction method.

In this letter on the coffee market, he told his student how he made a forecast in the coffee market using astrological cycles, and more importantly, how he converts price in zodiac degrees so that one will know when time will square with price. It is definitely something you do not want to miss.

Badass Your Brand by Pia Silva

This post is a collection of podasts with Pia Silva of Worstofall Design. She teaches people how to “badass” their brand—which is also the title of her new book. It is a step-by-step guide to turning your expertise into profit with no startup costs teaches. You may read the first chapter and download the free accompanying workbook and checklist.

Keypoints include: how Pia & Steve went from $40,000 in debt working 100 hours per week, to making $500,000 in the next 12 months just selling their services, and without paying for advertising; how to stand out from the competition and stop being a me-too brand; how to stop chasing business, and instead focus on doing what you do best as a way to attract your ideal, top-tier clients; how to charge more than your competitors and still win the business; and how to price your services to achieve freedom.

Energy Medicine

While most New-Age medicine enjoys a bad reputation as a quasi-science, the energy medicine method by Donna Eden is endorsed by a lot of prominent people. As explained in her book, Energy Medicine (Eden, 2008),  you can use some really simple ways to boost up your mental and physical and improve your daily performance at work. Her methods combines ancient practices like Meridians, Chadkras, and many other “spiritual methods” which are found in other cultures. By the way, she also claimed to be an clairvoyant who can see the energy fields around human bodies which others are unable to see, making her able to diagnose someone’s energy problems in seconds.

The Great Deacon

[The following passage is an excerpt from Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Lefèvre, 1923), a fictionalised biography of the legendary speculator Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940).]

I remember a story I heard about Deacon S. V. White when he was one of the big operators of the Street. He was a very fine old man, clever as they make them, and brave. He did some wonderful things in his day, from all I’ve heard.

A Song of Bulls and Bears

In a land very far away, there is a divided kingdom called the Market. Always ongoing in the country is a civil war between the North and the South. The Northerners are known as the Bears, and the Southerners the Bulls. A horizontal border separates the two sides, and it is known as the Price. Every day, the Bears try to push the Price south, and the Bulls want it to go north. As a result, the Price keeps going up and down every day.

Costa Bolsa

Some people asked me if I can write a little parable which explains the workings of the stock market to complete strangers who have never bought or sold any shares or derivatives in their lives. The short story below, entitled Costa Bolsa, is my attempt at meeting this challenge. I am by no mean the first person in the world to write similar tales, but I hope it is still educational to those who want to know more about the financial world.

The Mississipi Bubble

John Law (1671-1729) was a famous Scottish economist who originated economic ideas such as the real bills doctrine. Outside of the academic world, he was an equally impressive man. He was a brilliant gambler with a great calculating ability, which allowed him to win cards games across Europe for a living. In addition to that, he also killed a man in a duel, and enjoyed what one biographer called “extraordinary success with the opposite sex”. However, his most well-known achievement was his effect on the French economy when he was effectively the central banker of the country (Murphy, 1997).

Bidding Craze

Barry Diller is one of the most famous personalities in American media. The Time magazine called him the Miracle Mogul because he had phenomenal achievements in various media companies such as Paramount Pictures and Fox Television. In addition to this, he also mentored a significant number of executives who later became successful businessmen themselves, and as the media dubbed, they were collectively known as the “Killer Dillers”.

The Wine Formula

Orley Clark Ashenfelter is a professor of economics at Princeton University. Even though his academic interests are in labour economics, econometrics, and law and economics, he is also an amateur wine lover who spends a lot of time studying it and even published a research paper on wine prices. Later it occurred to him that this “amateurish” study of his would soon become his most famous discovery which upset the entire wine community for over a decade. (Ayres, 2006)

The Silva Method

José Silva (1914-1999) is one of the pioneers in the field of self-help psychology. Although he was an electronic repairman by training, he had an insatiable appetite for the study of psychology like hypnosis. Initially, he hoped to use his skill to increase the IQ of his children, but he decided to go even further in the development of psychic abilities after he became convinced that one of his daughters was a clairvoyant. (Stone, 1991)

Safety First

Paul Henry O'Neill (born December 4, 1935) is both a well-known politician and businessman in the United States. He served as the Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush until 2002. Before he joined the government, he was chairman and CEO of Pittsburgh-based industrial giant Aluminum Company of America — or Alcoa, as it was known — where he had a very memorable experience which people pass on as a valuable lesson for business leaders (Duhigg, 2012).

The Hero’s Journey

Joseph Campbell is an American mythologist who is famous for his study in ancient stories around the world. He discovered that all famous stories, no matter which part of the world it originates, share a very similar structure. Campbell also found that all characters in those stories fall into comparable archetypes which tend to repeat and again. In 1949, he published his masterpiece, Hero of a Thousand Faces, to disclose his findings, and many believe this to be one of the most influential books in the century.

The Natural Law

[The following is a famous interview of legendary market forcaster W. D. Gann by another famous stock market legend Richard Wyckoff in 1909. In this interview, without uncovering his exact method, Gann revealed some principles underlying his stunning predictions.]

Sometime ago the attention of this magazine was attracted by certain long pull Stock Market predictions which were being made by William D. Gann. In a large number of cases Mr. Gann gave us, in advance, the exact points at which certain stocks and commodities would sell, together with prices close to the then prevailing figures which would not be touched.

Overhead Supply

The best time to buy shares in the market is when the supply of shares begins to dwindle. In laymen terms, it is a time when the sellers have done their selling and starts to disappear. As soon as there are no more people selling the shares, the price will be free from a burden of supply and ready to go higher.

Buy at New High

[The following passage is an excerpt from Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Lefèvre, 1923), a fictionalised biography of the legendary speculator Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940).]

When a man makes his play in a commodity market he must not permit himself set opinions. He must have an open mind and flexibility. It is not wise to disregard the message of the tape, no matter what your opinion of crop conditions or of the probable demand may be. I recall how I missed a big play just by trying to anticipate the starting signal. I felt so sure of conditions that I thought it was not necessary to wait for the line of least resistance to define itself. I even thought I might help it arrive, because it looked as if it merely needed a little assistance. 

Seven Primers

Many people want to speculate successfully in the stock market, but most of them do no know where to start. In view of this, the writer decides to share his list of top ten books which are a must-read for all inspiring growth investors or momentum traders. The list is in ascending order of beginner-friendliness so that the first few books are the least technical and easiest for people with no experience to understand.

Learn Python!

The article is for those who have absolutely no experience in programming, but at the same time very much wants to learn the programming language of Python. It covers the basic operations of the codes as well as free online resources for the users to practice and go further into the subject.

Sat Kriya

Sat Kriya is one of most important yoga exercise, if not the most important of all. Some people claim that if one can learn only one yoga posture in his life, then it has to be this one because it contains almost all of the benefits that Kundalini Yoga can bring. One can gain from this exercise in multiple ways. Firstly, it is helpful to rejuvenate the mind while strengthening the body. More importantly, it also helps to awaken the so-called Kundalini energy, which is said to be a life force that is usually hidden dormant at the end of the spine.