Middle East Politics Part II (or III)

Egypt discovers the wonders of building a security fence in an attempt to protect against… freedom fighters?!? We’ll see you guys at the International court at Hague, don’t forget to take a number.

Where are you going Mr. Market?

Looks like the indices are struggling again and have turned south. It’s shaping up to be an interesting struggle for direction between the bulls and the bears and neither side has the upper hand. As TraderMike shown in his Upcoming tests post any failure to the upside may signal an overall bearish direction.

Local politics

I normally don’t get too bothered with local politics (here or in other places I’ve lived in). I guess I get enough of that from back home. But this case of the new coalition is just beyond ignoring.. What made me write about it? The new Foregin Minister - Mr. Peter Winston. If you asked […]

This week’s candidates

Very few candidates added this week, these are on my swing trading radar for resuming their rise/fall following a brief hesitation:
Long: GTK
Short: WMGI, AMSG

Weekend activities

This weekend past by swiftly. Two main things occupied me:
1. Linux project Part 3 - Wifi is working, streaming media content is working and I’ve got a couple of games installed (backgammon and poker, although not Texas hold’em).
2. My usual weekend routine of reviewing trades, processing last week’s candidates and triggers and preparing orders for […]

Iraq’s future

This is a very interesting analysis of the political changes underway in Iraq and a vision for a solution to a pretty complex situation.
The Iraqi state, established in the 1920s by British imperialist planners (with Winston Churchill in the lead), is a strange pastiche of three disparate provinces of the old Ottoman Empire: Mosul […]

Middle East Politics

This is an interesting piece of statistics released by The Palestinian Interior Ministry: More Palestinians killed by internal fighting than by Israel in 2005. Two things come to mind as a reaction to this:
1. People going on demonstrations demanding a stop to Palestinians killing innocent Palestinians, boycotting, UN condemnations, etc. etc. (there’s probably a better […]

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