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elfinchilde : here's the gbpusd chart again :
It is not possible to link a chart from your pc to SJ via an URL link.
For the URL link to work, the object (eg. chart drawing) must reside on a website, any website. 
sorry, is it possible to paste up charts here without using an image hosting service? as in, d/l direct from PC to SJ.
*blur*
baseerahmed, too many lines on your forex chart......
Yup,
I've been monitoring my forex trades most of the time (even while shopping). 
Hey iPunter,
Welcome back! Haven't seen you online for some time.
Gone on holiday?
iPunter ( Date: 10-May-2008 11:46) Posted:
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Presently due to high cost it is not cost-effective to have solar panels...
But if super-efficient cells are developed in future (which I think is a matter of time),
it will bring untold benefits to all...
Now I am thinking about installing solar panels in my house. Save energy costs....
baseerahmed ( Date: 10-May-2008 07:45) Posted:
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Baseer... :)
Just think about 16GB thumbdrives now and you'll know you'll save even more if you don't 'overbuy' now...
And not so long ago, I was really thrilled to own a 10mb hard disk drive installed in my at that time
high-end 16Mhz AT PC...
Hondastream... :)
You are dreaming or thinking on the right track...
just work on a super-efficient solar panel, and you've have it made.
yo, i ever had a dream , and that dreams so enterprising , I invented a small gadget that can store energy for household consumption
by just making use of the sun, same concept as the current solar cell. but the current solar panel is so big and expensive.
with my reengineering , the size reduce and can stored high amount of energy , which can supply the entire household electricity
demanded. wow if this thing materialise...... so many thing can be apply... : O ,
just some saturday daydreaming....
somehow why is that i get a feeling that there is going to be some sort of announcement regarding cheap energy in th enear future ..
i mean ...
..going by the supermarket marketing strategy .. just about 2 weeks ago they advertised 2GB thumbdrive for 19.90(or was it 12.90?) and siad it wsa the best buy.. and this week the 4GB is best buy at 29.90 ..poor buyers , they could have got 2 extra GB for 10 dollars more if they had waited till this week ...hmm wonder if they will sell 8GB next for 39.90 or less ...hahaha !
and towards Christmas or Chinese New Year etc ...there is such high mark up ... the very next day ...the prices drop like crazy .."make hay while sun shines " ?
so ... will we see something of this nature in the energy sector too ..? .. hahaha !
.. like they say .. the dying wick shines ever brightly ...?
(lately ... i notice a lot of CNG taxis .. is a new trend in the offing ...? )
: )
if oil is a cost .. so too is labour ...
if oil can be speculated ... why can't labour be speculated too ....
we humans are indeed genius ..
hahaha !
a 'brillaint' idea just struck me ...
maybe its worth the Nobel Prize ... hahaha !
why don't we create an Exchange for the Salaries and Wages of most profession/job ... this way we can speculate on the wages and salaries whenever the we are bored with the other Exchanges ... and suddenly the next day our pay-check gets bigger while there is a drop in , say , the gold ... and we happily go out for a sumptous feast for our dinner ... hahaha !
Mother is always right ... " Don't play with the Food ! "
*grin from ear to ear *
can't help sharing it .. the trendlines ...maybe experts can read better ..and advice better .. caveat emptor .....
(sorry for the huge chart .. )
Rice Isn't Oil, Even If Some Asians Think It Is
Commentary by William Pesek
May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Until last week, the next oil -- the critical resource growing ever scarcer and prompting desperate behavior to ensure supplies -- was water. Turns out, it's rice.
That's at least what some Asian leaders think. Hence a plan in Southeast Asia to create an OPEC-like cartel to manage rice supplies amid record prices. Thailand and Vietnam account for almost half of global rice exports. Add in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar and Asia's cartel would wield even more power over food prices than OPEC does with oil.
It's a terrible idea. For one thing, an Organization of Rice Exporting Countries, or OREC, would presumably favor high prices. That may benefit producers, but hurt consumers everywhere. For another, the timing is awful with commodity prices reaching unprecedented levels.
Haruhiko Kuroda, president of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, says ``the agriculture market should be market-driven'' and that ``any kind of cartel isn't good for the exporters and the importers.'' Philippines Senator Edgardo Angara says it would ``create an oligopoly and it's against humanity.''
It's hard to see how a rice cartel would even work. With oil, you have reserves -- actual stockpiles of the commodity. Rice needs to be harvested. Its production is dependent on weather, the cost of fertilizer and the availability of arable land and water. And how exactly can you control farmers growing rice or not growing it?
Move Over OPEC
Asia's disparate economies also aren't renowned for cooperation. Among Mekong Delta nations you have a constitutional monarchy, an immature multiparty democracy, two communist states and a military regime -- all at very different levels of development. Seriously, folks, good luck making that work.
The real story here is this: The very idea of a rice cartel speaks to the desperation with which Asia is treating food-price trends.
Food security hijacked recent meetings of the ADB and Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean. At the ADB event in Madrid, there was vague, yet worrisome talk of 1997-like crises in certain Asian nations. Not a regional meltdown that sends contagion across the globe, but scattered ones.
One sign of the anxiety coursing through Asia is talk in India of suspending trading in more food futures as political pressure grows. India has already halted trading in wheat, rice and lentils. Now there's pressure to ban dealing in cooking oil, sugar and other commodities.
Trading Ban
The idea of banning commodities trading sounds farfetched. Markets play an important role in valuing goods and redistributing them. Yet speculation in everything from oil to gold to food is causing froth in prices. There's a speculative bubble in speculation.
It says something about the crazy market environment we're living in when George Soros leaps out of retirement to get in on it. Good timing, too: Soros earned an estimated $2.9 billion last year, according to Institutional Investor's Alpha Magazine.
``If rightly or wrongly people perceive that commodities- futures trading is contributing to a speculation-driven rise in prices, then in a democracy you will have to heed that voice,'' Indian Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told Bloomberg on May 4.
It makes you wonder why exchanges don't start demanding that buyers take delivery of the commodities they trade. The bottom line is that Wall Street doesn't realize the effect that food prices are having on the developing world.
Food Crisis
Talk of trading bans is enough to send chills down the spines of disciples of Milton Friedman. Then again, one could argue that those who believe oil prices are set by the market are delusional. OPEC ultimately controls the value of oil -- not traders.
Asia is especially vulnerable to rising food costs. It's home to the bulk of the world's population and families living in poverty. Many of the most promising markets are also there.
Global food prices surged 57 percent in March from a year earlier, according to the United Nations. ADB officials estimate food expenditure accounts for 60 percent of household outlays for poor families -- 75 percent when fuel costs are added.
It isn't hard to see why Asia is considering drastic measures. To many in the region, creating a rice cartel seems no more irrational than the Federal Reserve saving Bear Stearns Cos. from collapse. Yet OPEC's influence is a cautionary tale.
Cartel Won't Help
U.S. President George W. Bush in January traveled through the Persian Gulf begging for an increase in oil production to give U.S. consumers a break. Bush's pleas fell on deaf ears.
On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton has ratcheted up the rhetoric on OPEC. While the summertime gas-tax holiday proposed by U.S. presidential candidates Clinton and John McCain is just plain stupid, she's right to question the world's most-watched cartel.
``They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months in some conference room in some plush place in the world and decide how much oil they're going to produce and what price they're going to put it at,'' she said in Indiana this week.
Given how global markets are held hostage by OPEC, a rice cartel hardly seems like a wise move.
(William Pesek is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)
Commentary by William Pesek
May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Until last week, the next oil -- the critical resource growing ever scarcer and prompting desperate behavior to ensure supplies -- was water. Turns out, it's rice.
That's at least what some Asian leaders think. Hence a plan in Southeast Asia to create an OPEC-like cartel to manage rice supplies amid record prices. Thailand and Vietnam account for almost half of global rice exports. Add in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar and Asia's cartel would wield even more power over food prices than OPEC does with oil.
It's a terrible idea. For one thing, an Organization of Rice Exporting Countries, or OREC, would presumably favor high prices. That may benefit producers, but hurt consumers everywhere. For another, the timing is awful with commodity prices reaching unprecedented levels.
Haruhiko Kuroda, president of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, says ``the agriculture market should be market-driven'' and that ``any kind of cartel isn't good for the exporters and the importers.'' Philippines Senator Edgardo Angara says it would ``create an oligopoly and it's against humanity.''
It's hard to see how a rice cartel would even work. With oil, you have reserves -- actual stockpiles of the commodity. Rice needs to be harvested. Its production is dependent on weather, the cost of fertilizer and the availability of arable land and water. And how exactly can you control farmers growing rice or not growing it?
Move Over OPEC
Asia's disparate economies also aren't renowned for cooperation. Among Mekong Delta nations you have a constitutional monarchy, an immature multiparty democracy, two communist states and a military regime -- all at very different levels of development. Seriously, folks, good luck making that work.
The real story here is this: The very idea of a rice cartel speaks to the desperation with which Asia is treating food-price trends.
Food security hijacked recent meetings of the ADB and Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean. At the ADB event in Madrid, there was vague, yet worrisome talk of 1997-like crises in certain Asian nations. Not a regional meltdown that sends contagion across the globe, but scattered ones.
One sign of the anxiety coursing through Asia is talk in India of suspending trading in more food futures as political pressure grows. India has already halted trading in wheat, rice and lentils. Now there's pressure to ban dealing in cooking oil, sugar and other commodities.
Trading Ban
The idea of banning commodities trading sounds farfetched. Markets play an important role in valuing goods and redistributing them. Yet speculation in everything from oil to gold to food is causing froth in prices. There's a speculative bubble in speculation.
It says something about the crazy market environment we're living in when George Soros leaps out of retirement to get in on it. Good timing, too: Soros earned an estimated $2.9 billion last year, according to Institutional Investor's Alpha Magazine.
``If rightly or wrongly people perceive that commodities- futures trading is contributing to a speculation-driven rise in prices, then in a democracy you will have to heed that voice,'' Indian Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told Bloomberg on May 4.
It makes you wonder why exchanges don't start demanding that buyers take delivery of the commodities they trade. The bottom line is that Wall Street doesn't realize the effect that food prices are having on the developing world.
Food Crisis
Talk of trading bans is enough to send chills down the spines of disciples of Milton Friedman. Then again, one could argue that those who believe oil prices are set by the market are delusional. OPEC ultimately controls the value of oil -- not traders.
Asia is especially vulnerable to rising food costs. It's home to the bulk of the world's population and families living in poverty. Many of the most promising markets are also there.
Global food prices surged 57 percent in March from a year earlier, according to the United Nations. ADB officials estimate food expenditure accounts for 60 percent of household outlays for poor families -- 75 percent when fuel costs are added.
It isn't hard to see why Asia is considering drastic measures. To many in the region, creating a rice cartel seems no more irrational than the Federal Reserve saving Bear Stearns Cos. from collapse. Yet OPEC's influence is a cautionary tale.
Cartel Won't Help
U.S. President George W. Bush in January traveled through the Persian Gulf begging for an increase in oil production to give U.S. consumers a break. Bush's pleas fell on deaf ears.
On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton has ratcheted up the rhetoric on OPEC. While the summertime gas-tax holiday proposed by U.S. presidential candidates Clinton and John McCain is just plain stupid, she's right to question the world's most-watched cartel.
``They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months in some conference room in some plush place in the world and decide how much oil they're going to produce and what price they're going to put it at,'' she said in Indiana this week.
Given how global markets are held hostage by OPEC, a rice cartel hardly seems like a wise move.
(William Pesek is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)
Ah, the Kilo yrs civilisation native place, nice place, esp Benhur??????
hahahhaha! yes, shplayer! singaporegal, be so kind as to inform us of the date in advance so we can get out of the market. :P
Great place in terms of history, culture. Athens, Delphi,.....the Classical tour, and Crete.
Aiyoh.....another SGH coming
singaporegal ( Date: 07-May-2008 19:45) Posted:
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