Here’s interesting short documentary about the future of world wide web and problems of ever growing amount of data. Documentary is called Web 3.0 and it’s produced and directed by NUY Psychology/Journalism major Kate Ray.
I guess it was inevitable. Everybody was sure it was going to happen at some point, but nobody was sure when. This year, just a couple of days ago in Adult Entertainment Expo 2010, Las Vegas, a robotic sex-mate called Roxxxy made her debut. She can’t clean and she can’t cook, but she can do almost everything else, if you know what i mean, says the CEO of True Companion, Douglas Hines.
Roxxxy is 170cm (5,5 feet) tall and weights 54 kg ( 119 lbs ). She has a C-cup, five different personalities and WiFi-support. Judging from the video she’s not exactly like robot-whores in the movies such as Blader Runner or A.I. , but hey, it’s a start.
The topic of self-help websites and books is of interest to me. Not only because it is a huge industry, but also because I think that some of those products are quite good and do indeed help people.
Be it Napoleon Hill telling readers (and listeners to the audio book) how to become rich, Eric Foerster giving tips on how to own your career, or Tim Ferriss recycling material from a dozen other books into a modern guide for the 21st century internet entrepreneur.
And then of course there is the whole subculture of material related to sex. More precisely: Guides on how to pick up women and get laid.
Let’s discuss the pick-up thing.
The movement of any financial instrument over time needs some kind of graphical representation, mostly because humans are good at visual interpretation and suck at number crunching. In our case, we focus on the price movement of a currency pair in the forex market. The simplest form of graph (or chart) is to plot to price as a function of time. This will give you the known zigzag movement once sees in comic strips. There’s a slight catch though, the price changes every second or even less! Thus to represent a day’s movement we need about 90′000 points. That’s probably why candlestick and OHLC charts have been developed: they allows the graphical summarisation of the price movement for any time frame.
If we divided price movements into e.g. 10 minute intervals, then the price can only make two things in that time: it can increase or decrease. Together with the open and closing price (the first and last price change in the 10 minutes) this makes four price information: open, high, low, and closing price.
OHLC Chart
So I read 50 Cent’s book over the weekend .. “wait what? 50 Cent wrote a book?” you might ask yourself. Yes, 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, teamed up with Robert Greene (author of 48 laws of power) and wrote the book 50th Law.
The book itself is wrapped in a nice black hard cover with golden (p.i.m.p.?) framed pages. Multiple people told me they thought it was the bible lying on my coffee table.
The theme of the book is fear and how to overcome it to be a better self — in business and life in general. It contains 10 chapters but no table of contents for some reason. The basic idea of each of the chapters is to describe a part of Curtis’ life as drug dealer in a dangerous area in New York and how he managed to beat the odds of this almost inevitable drug and violence downwards spiral. Then, the authors generalise the gangster-attitude of Curtis as hustler to a life lesson.
APMID is known to go where the money is. That’s why we decided to venture into the world of the foreign exchange market. This might seem crazy, and on some level it certainly is, but I think it’s the right thing to do. While we did quite well in Poker (which is some sort of gambling just like Forex might seem), as one of the APMID fellows lived of Poker for several months, we will do equally well in Forex.
This new series of posts will document our journey. In this first entry, we will quickly review what Forex is and how the basics of trading works. Future posts will discuss technical indicators, programming of automated trading bots, automated trading algorithms and the development of own indicators.
Forex Trading and Understanding Exchange Rates
Forex stands for the foreign exchange and it’s the platform which let banks and individuals trade currencies. The foreign exchange market defines the current value of one currency in comparison to another, thus building the basis for international business.
I occasionally browse and read this wonderful and extremely amusing forum called AboveTopSecret. It’s perhaps the largest online forum devoted entirely to topics like UFOs, conspiracies, New World Order, telepathy and PSI powers or other such alternative/New Age stuff. The majority of the posts are pretty boring and follow the generic “Barack Obama/goverment is evil” laments, but from time to time you can find real gems such as Project Camelot interview Dr Steven Greer.
