links for 2008-09-30

Bloomberg.com: Fund Managers Rattled as Rescue Plan's Rejection Shakes Markets
“I'm more than worried,'' said Jarislowsky, who co-founded his firm in 1955 and oversees C$51 billion ($49 billion). “In a market like this, I'm not looking at opportunity. I am looking at preservation of capital. If governments aren't careful and this mess isn't solved fast, capitalism […]

links for 2008-09-29

Dark chocolate: Half a bar per week to keep at bay the risk of heart attack
via ugly
(tags: Chocolate Health Benefits)

Syria says radical Islam behind Damascus blast
"An initial investigation into Saturday's fatal attack in Damascus revealed that a radical Islamic organization was responsible for the car bomb which killed 17 people. " Religion of peace..
(tags: Terrorism […]

Panic

If you’re watching the tape, that’s what panic selling looks like. Accelerating, wide-spread and with little or no pause at all. Let’s see where it stops, if just to catch a breath.

Watching Bangkok Dangerous in Bangkok

We went to watch Nicholas Cage’s new movie Bangkok Dangerous. I liked the movie, but just as a casual lazy afternoon entertainment. Nothing too profound or ground-breaking. There were lots of cliches as one could expect from a movie set in Asia. They didn’t use the city too much as a backdrop and many scenes […]

links for 2008-09-28

Amazon.com: Crysis Warhead: Windows Vista: Video Games
1. Securom 7, the DRM scheme, installs itself on your computer and is as hard as a computer virus to uninstall. 2. The game has limited activations (5) meaning that you can only install the game a total of 5 times. I think I rebuilt my computer 4 times […]

Good advice and general trading talk

Lots of interesting and timeless tidbits in this blog and the comments from people who live the markets and off the markets. Here are a few from a recent post.
“If I were you, I wouldn’t discuss your system of trading with anyone. Profitable systems tend to decay when others find them out and trade YOUR […]