Windows 7 design for our XP

We installed Seven Remix XP and are happy about the result.Our old-style XP looks far more pleasant as before.
Our Desktop with the new task bar:

The Blogger upload window with a modern style frame compared to the ten year old XP style:

So far we aren't regreting updating our Operating System with "Seven Remix XP".Another reason to stick to XP Pro.:)
Before it's possible to change any Themes it's necessary to install UX Theme MultiPatcher,who unlocks the OS for additional Themes.
Both programms are free to download in serveral languages like German,English and Spanish.

Two men alone at home

Michaela went to the market with Po,the owner of our house while Po's husband is at work and'll be back home in another hour.Meanwhile Danny is doing his cursive exercise right next to the PC where he'll continue with maths afterwards.He decided incidentelly by himself about today's timetable.
His handwriting went by the way even better since he's lerning script and not only block letters.That is uncommon at school in Germany or Austria until the 2nd. grade but Danny is improving just so fast.He sometimes starts schoolwork by himself,just to kill the time.
When my wife arrived back she brought among other food only one kilo Rambutans for 3000 Riel(75ct.).This funny looking fruit is among Danny's favorites so i'll get some more later.:)

€uro's reversal against the Dollar

The €uro at 143,76 this morning:

We'll see imo a fast rise as soon as he recaptured the 1.44.:)

BASF today

Another strike in my predictions.:)

Good stockmarket news for next week

The consumer confidence index of the University of Michigan brightened up yesterday better as expected.:)
Some more good news like that and it'll become a promising week for the Dow Jones.The S&P 500 closed yesterday again a quarter higher as the Dow,another promising indicator because it displays that the larger market is taking up speed as well.
The 12400 prevailed another test on Friday and the Dow Jones closed at 12441.60 points.:)

Analysts and recommendations the 2nd.

Another 'Anylists joke' documented here in the blog(Oilprice at 90$ by the end of the year):
http://lifeisajourney2010.blogspot.com/2011/05/oil-59-this-morning.html
(How he could predict that for a time many countries are stocking up heating oil for the winter???This is a market opinion of a high payed banker,muarharhar!)
Today's oil price chart:

Are you wondering now anymore why the banks are in such trouble?Just picture him trading high volatile Oil-Futures with millions of our money guided by this competence,oh man!

Dow Jones-Short term trend channel

The among stocktraders most observed index is still in a steep channel and is hanging right now on a important resistance mark-The 12400:

Metfone costumer service

Through the difficulties with our internet connection Metfone damanded for last month only 30 ct. instead of 30$-what a nice surprise when we payed our monthly fee a week ago.:)

A interesting DAX call-updated

This posting contains now for interested readers more detailed informations about warrant judgement,but of course can't replace to read some detailed books for personal safety,because knowledge is safety in this field.:)

http://lifeisajourney2010.blogspot.com/2011/05/interesting-dax-call.html

Danny and joghurts

Unfortunately he doesn't like joghurts that much.We are a bit concerned about him taking enough calcium.Danny lost yesterday a upper incisor,the second one isn't visible yet.Anyway,it needs enough calcium for kids to grow strong teeth.
That's why it allways take a bit of time to get him having a jughurt a day,but we are sure that he'll be thanksfull anyway in the future for not beeing a regular patient of his dentist.:)
Pregnant women should drink at least a liter milk per day as one of the biggest gifts for the the strengh and health of her child like my mother did in this time.
In my case it helped and i haven't seen a dentist since 15 years,no inlet's,fillings or teeth crones in the age of 38 years!

Seems the confidence in the market is decreasing:)

BASF this morning

Oh man!

A waste of time until now.I can recomment to avoid market entries within the first five trading minutes.They do often weird moves at the market beginning.Take your time to figure out a real trend instead to count on unpredictable jumps to avoid losses.
A bit later:

Let's close the broker window for today,get the family on the motorbike...

Dow Jones Industrial Average

A chart analysis:

The Dow Jones can take off any minute from today on and pull all other markets with him.It's getting interesting again from today on.
I'll stick to my BASF plan and buy the stocks as soon as it looks like to do so.Right after stocks got booked into the account i'm used to fill right after the sell mask and click me further to a single click before "Transmit Order".Therefore i literaly can sell within 3 seconds,just a advice for begining daytraders.:)

Like family hiking in the woods of Andalusia?

Enjoy that!

Have been there as a kid,it was beautyfull and impressive in that time.
Just a example where Europe is going through in endless tolerance and i'm convienced that the do gooders want to take the rest of them over as well.

The article in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/world/europe/26migrants.html?_r=1&hp

The €uro still remains in the wrong trend channel

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Der Polizei geht langsam der Sprit aus!

http://www.focus.de/politik/schlagzeilen/nid_73114.html
Das wird wohl nicht zu einem Sicherheitsgewinn führen.
Das bei diesen Problemen:

Dafür wohl eher weniger Streife gefahren werden etc.Unter solchen Verhältnissen hätte ich mir als Familienvater schon längst mindestens einen unauffälligen 38'er als ständigen Begleiter besorgt.
Der Staat kann seine Bürger nicht angemessen beschützen,bei der lächerlichen Rechtssprechung mit "Migrantenbonus" erst recht nicht!
Mein 38'er,den ich in Österreich oft dienstlich getragen habe,ein Smith&Wesson 37 Airweight von 1971(Gewicht geladen ca 400 gramm):

Den Deutschen Bürgerentrechtungsstaat würde ich dafür gar nicht erst um Erlaubnis fragen!

Commerzbank minus 21% in the pre market !

Now that's a stock crash!
Keep in mind that this is a Blue Chip cooperation who is employing 10.000s of bankers,not a postbox company in the Caimans-haven't seen that since "Lehman"!

A interesting DAX call

This Call would hit my strategy if the DAX would turn upwards again above 6800 points.
For entry points benith the 6800 in the worst case i would recomment a warrant with a lower break-even.
This one is between the most traded ones at the Euwax so no worries about the money-flow.
Just notice the loss yesterday of more than 9% while the underlaying itself lost only 2%-a leverage of 4.5 while the Omega is even 5.2!
In good times this warrant moves the same speed in the other direction and makes as displayed in the long term chart 50% jumps in a couple of weeks.This is in fact a quite defensive one because he is still "in the money"and a bit close to"at the money"(Never buy anything else),means in this case above his break-even at 6900.The tiny Spread of 1ct. is also a plus factor for this financial instrument.
The warrant is losing 1% per week(Theta)if the quote remains unchanged and the same while he's moving.Never keep warrants for that matter to long because of the loss of time value,which is even incresing as closer the warrant comes to his expirering.

Who likes to work for peanuts the 2 nd.

Like in the middle ages,exept the slaves doesn't get beaten anymore!

http://www.wiwo.de/politik-weltwirtschaft/arbeitnehmer-profitieren-nicht-vom-aufschwung-466988/

Analysts and recommendations

Be carefull with this guys.They are like carnival barkers and monkeys could archive a higher recall ratio as most white collar professionals.

They definitely can't replace own research and abilities,just my advice.:)

http://lifeisajourney2010.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-basf-recommendations-this-morning.html

The €uro is making trouble

Some chart Kung Fu:

Firefox 5.0 beta version ready to download

The final Firefox 5.0 will be out in 4 weeks.

Download link for the beta version:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/

If i would still trade warrants...

If i would have bought this one here on Friday according to my market analysis from Saturday before market closure i would have made 25% today when selling the warrant in the morning again.
The warrant trading can makes rich very fast,but i'm scared to be rich.I growed up among "normal" people and even couldn't emergine how it feels like to have a million,but i could make a million when using all knowledge potential i have.For instance the predicted Nikkei 225 fall could have made me 55% up to now in 4 trading days.Sorry,but i don't want to search for this particular Nikkei Put again right now.There are unlimited opportunities to trade both directions.The flipside of the coin is that wrong decisions get punished hard through the leverage factor.
The mentioned market analysis:
http://lifeisajourney2010.blogspot.com/2011/05/normal-friday-for-dax.html

The Nikkei 225 went through his important support line

The next days and weeks won't get easy for the Japanese market in my opnion.

As predicted at May 17th.:
http://lifeisajourney2010.blogspot.com/2011/05/nikkei-225-at-edge.html

Today's statistic

The last 23 hours a bit later:

Welcome dear readers,
have a nice time at this pages.:)

Kind regards
Sascha

Major world markets this morning

Important barages broke this morning-No trading suggestions for today.:)

Ouch-First "pre market" quotes today

I hope you aren't still invested anymore.:)

(Check out Commerzbank!)

RWE-When the elephant will start runing in the other direction?

He is coming down,the German energy provider RWE.
Since the German Government madhouse decided to make the world a better place through turn off own nuclear plants instead of replacing them by modern ones and to import nuclear energy from neighbor countries RWE had a hard time.
The 10 year chart:

Here comes the lesson for our Government fuzzies(in the majority lawyers) how global economy works:
RWE is in contract conversations with a Dutch energy provider and involved in the building of a new modern plant on Netherlands soil!That's where they also will probably pay their taxes instead to the German state-Congrats for this result.The German government is such a pain in the a...!


Whenever the stocks start turning and taking first resistance marks...
In case you want to make much money with little capital i would suggest to make up your mind about trading warrants as i did in younger and less resonable years.:)
Choose this one for instance:
RWE Call 50 2012/12 (DBK) DE000DB9PLR3.EUWAX 0,17 EUR -5,56 %

A 9 months chart of this warrant.

The opposite direction-a put warrant,who is falling contrary to rising quotes and reverse:

Both warrants have a theoretical leverage of 1:10.That means that the warrant is moving up to 10 times as fast as the underlaying-RWE.
By the way,to learn in detail how to judge warrants,trade them successfully and continuing far further than to Spread and Leverage means to enter a very demanding field of financial management.When i learned that years ago all by myself it literaly took every single working braincell to comprehend that.

Booming economy in Canada

The economy growth of more than 3% is attracting a lot workers mainly to the west coast.Therefore the house prises are increasing dramatically-21% in the last year in Vancouver.
The Central Bank raised the interest rates a few times to steer against a possible speculation bubble....

Interesting article in German about economic details of the beautyfull Canada:
http://www.boerse-online.de/maerkte/nachrichten/konjunktur/:Boomende-Wirtschaft--Rauchzeichen-in-Kanada/625475.html

Large area power outages in Germany

The four energy network providers are predicting through shortages mainly in winters large area power outages particular in South Germany in the nearer future:

That will probably increase the birth rate once the TV stays off.:)

Australian stock for daytrading

Brambles Ltd.(BXB):

This is the first extraordinary one i saw for daytrading,just by the chart.:)

Australia's stockmarket-First charts

I'm not far further than that right now but it looks very convincing for the market once the XAO took the 5000 something,that'll be likely soon as this chart formation in the 10 year chart is called a "ascent triangle",which is a strong indicator for further rising quotes.
A 10 year chart of the XAO:

A 1 year chart:

I'm struggeling to get individual stock charts right now without adequate knowledge about the markets yet,but i'll work myself into it from now on.:)

A great webside in this context i've discovered yet:
http://asx.netquote.com.au/charts.asp

Australia the 2nd.

When we stopped at a supermarket this morning we talked quite a while to a lady from Queensland.She also suggested to move to Australia while she would help us with the visa stuff if we are deciding for Australia.
She does paragliding as well,so we'll have enough topics to talk about when she joins us in the afternoon.:)
The Byron Bay near Brisbane is by the way among the most interesting spots for paragliding in the world.Australia is a paradise for flying like i heard from many sides.
Good wages get payed in Australia,the economy keeps on growing and got far less effected of the economy crisis as other western nations.
If we would find a way through the restrictive immigration law by good connections before we even entered the country...
We'll see.:)

Australia's economy forecast:
The fastest growing western nation in the world!!!
http://www.economywatch.com/world_economy/australia/economic-forecast.html

Meanwhlie i'll check out the Australian stockmarket in detail until she arrives.

Addition:
That was indeed a interesting afternoon with Kerry,a sucessfull business women in her best age and milionaire in estate.She is just doing what we would do with unlimited money-to travel the world.She is so greatfull too and we had a hard time to prevent her from giving us all the cash she had with her.:)
She enjoyed reading the blog,watching pictures from our years in Austria and just listen to our story.Kerry will join us again in September and even offered us to visit her in the meantime in Australia.:)

Greece bancrupt at July 18th.

Exept the EU transfers another 12 billion,of course why not?

http://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/staatsverschuldung/griechische-schuldenkrise-am-18-juli-sind-die-kassen-leer_aid_629786.html

The end of Frankfurts floor trading era

It hurts when i'm thinking of the end of the classic floor trading era by open outcry.
From Monday on the Xetra system will take over and ever order via Frankfurt gets processed by the computersystem.120 Xetra specialists of 16 different companies will fill the trading floor from next week on.
Critics said that the floor trading in Frankfurt was just a show for the public but i'll miss it anyway.
The trading floor in Frankfurt at 1879:

1914:

1957:

1969:

In the 70's:

Details zum Fall Strauss Kahn

Bin persönlich auch davon überzeugt,das es sich um ein abgekartetes Spiel handelt.Da war wieder jemand Amerikanischen Interressen im Weg.

Der ganze Artikel bei Kopp Verlag(wirklich empfehlenswert):
http://info.kopp-verlag.de/hintergruende/enthuellungen/paul-craig-roberts/ein-abgekartetes-spiel-gegen-strauss-kahn-der-amerikanische-polizeistaat-auf-dem-vormarsch.html;jsessionid=5822E36BAC25B6A71D75B0C8DD952CF6

Acronis True Image Home 2011

A very usefull and sophisticated software to create a operating system rescue CD,backup your operating system incl. all installed software in a "secure zone" from where it can be recovered whenever it quits the job and many more backup features.The software did the whole OS backup process in less than 10 minutes,the rescue CD in less than one.So far i'm convinced also through the awards they won in tests.:)

More details at their homepage.
In German:
http://www.acronis.de/homecomputing/products/trueimage/
In English:
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/index.html
The prices are at the German one 49.95€,at the US 49.95$ !

A normal Friday for the DAX

The Friday is often a more dangerous days for stocktraders because many institutional investors of banks,hedgefonds and insurances are closing positions before the weekend.
The significant loss yesterday because of Fitch's downgrade of Greece creditworthiness to B+ brought the DAX down to a point,where i would suggest to be carefull next week.
The 30 DAX stocks after the end of the day:

A technical DAX analysis:

BASF !!!

Maybe not that bad that i sold them before:

The world markets are now full speed in the reverse gear.
The DOW Jones Future right now:

"Little scientist's house"

A just discovered science website for kids in English,German and Russian:

http://www.haus-der-kleinen-forscher.de/en/welcome.html

"All in one Runtimes"

Just updated our version of "All in one Runtimes".A very usefull collection of all necessary Runtimes included Java,Flash Player,DirectX,Shockwaveplayer etc.

Download in English:
http://www.dl4all.com/aio/67341-all-in-one-runtimes-net-framework-plus-hotfixes.html

Download in German:
http://www.computerbase.de/downloads/system/all-in-one-runtimes/

BASF sold for 63.90€

I allmost never keep stocks over the weekend and sold for 83.90€.
The little rally isn't over yet imho. and the next week looks promising up to now.
The tiny gain i made isn't worth mentioning.:)

German Online Brokers

Flatex 4ever:

A example of the costs for a amount of 50 trades per year with 100.000€ capital(just a example to show the conditions gap between the market leaders).

That is 14€ per trade.

Never had a problem with Flatex,can't get much better than that!

How we pimped our Opera 11.11

A few different "skins" are available:
http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/
Our current one is the "Omelion"-which is designed for Linux but works fine with Windows as well.

The installed extensions:
AD-Blocker multilingual
WEBbtoPDF webside-to-PDF converter
X-notifier Multi-mail-account notifier

The €uro is recovering

A quick chart analysis with trend channel and the nearest resistance marks:

The €uro isn't out of the woods yet until he recaptured the 1.44 and confirmed that by taking the 1.4450 as well.Therefore is the southwards trend still in effect.

The news are these days more in advantage to the € as to the $ because FED's first raise of the inrterest rates is aspected in 2012 while the EZB will likely raise again in June this year.