Google free proxy!: "A little tutorial found on the italian site www.manuali.net inspired me for this hack. That tutorial suggests to translate a webpage, using Google translator, to access it even if restricted.
It worked fine but something else was needed... why translate?!
...
Ok, let's start from the beginning. We all know that Google is more than a search engine; we do use it as provider for email, mapping, news and many other services. Google is now also a free proxy service. Proxy is a device that stands between a PC and the internet, providing all the connections to the world wide web. What a proxy does is to receive all data from a requested site, so when you access web pages all data come from proxy.
What's the purpose for Google as a proxy? We often use office/school/university connections, usually those services are set to provide more safety, blocking the access to undesidered web sites (the 'black list'). What you can do now is use Google translator service (language tools) as a proxy to bypass the restrictions set for our connection!
You just need to type the following URL:
http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.forbiddensite.com
(www.forbiddensite.com stands for the URL you need to go to...)
What you'll get is the translation (english to english!) of the page you want to see... your connection is directed to a googl"
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Monday, June 04, 2007
Golden Rules of Stock Market By Peter Lynch
While surfing for investment ideas I came across "25 golden rules" by peterlynch on dividendgrowth.org
I think these are investing gems that would be useful for everyone beginner or professional alike.
25 Golden Rules :From Beating the Street by Peter Lynch
I think these are investing gems that would be useful for everyone beginner or professional alike.
25 Golden Rules :From Beating the Street by Peter Lynch
- Investing is fun, exciting, and dangerous if you don't do any work.
- Your investor's edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It's something you already have. You can outperform the experts if you use your edge by investing in companies or industries you already understand.
- Over the past three decades, the stock market has come to be dominated by a herd of professional investors. Contrary to popular belief, this makes it easier for the amateur investor. You can beat the market by ignoring the herd.
- Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
- Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months or even a few years. In the long-term, there is a 100 percent correlation between the success of the company and the success of the stock. This disparity is the key to making money; it pays to be patient, and to own successful companies.
- You have to know what you own and, why you own it. "This baby is a cynch to go up!" doesn't count.
- Long shots almost always miss the mark.
- Owning stocks is like having children- don't get involved with more than you can handle. The part-time stockpicker probably has time to follow 8-12 companies, and to buy and sell shares as conditions warrant. There don't have to be more than 5 companies in the portfolio at any one time.
- If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.
- Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets. Always look at the balance sheet to see if a company is solvent before you risk your money on it.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Mr Kanu Doshi has drawn some of the valuable gems from a book called "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki. Its on the best seller list for quite some time. This book contains gems for investors like you and me and for everyone wanting to know more about "money".
The author says that in life, when you desire to fly an aircraft you must and therefore you do "learn" flying aircrafts. When you wish to enjoy a bicycle ride, you must and you do "learn" how to ride a bicycle. Maybe you will fall several times before you finally succeed.
But a lay investor who wants to make money on the stockmarket tends to just pick up the phone, speak to his stockbroker, buy a stock and starts dreaming of becoming rich. That is not the way the rich investors who become richer with every passing day go about investing into stocks.
The rich follow the same principle of "learning" to ride a bicycle or flying an aircraft. They therefore first "learn" to "invest". They learn all there is to know about the art of investing in stocks. All about the stocks they wish to buy and only then do they take the plunge.
Above all, they keep practicing what they have learnt. They keep sharpening their saw. This single factor of learning before hand separates the rich investors from the poor investors, says the author.
Comparison of Stock Market with the Super Market: The author says that when Super Markets reduce the prices of the goods and announce a "sale", customers flock into the stores and buy up every little item and build up at home piles of grocery, soaps, etc.
But when Stock Markets reduce the prices of shares and announce a "crash" every investor rushes in to "sell" and runs away from the market.
Again, conversely, when Super Markets raise their prices, customers shy away and refrain from buying till the next "sale"; but when Stock Markets announce rising prices, every investor rushes in to "buy".
This is not the way, again, the rich investors behave. They follow the same principle of buying at the Super Markets. They buy stocks only when the Stock Markets crash. Ask Warren Buffet or John Templeton.
Investing Is Knowing Your Assets and Liability
the author says, is `investing is knowing your assets'. When you move your money from your bank account in order to `invest' you are putting your money into assets like shares, real estate, deposits, etc.
The rich never keep their wealth in the form of liquid money in a bank account. They always keep acquiring assets while the poor acquire liabilities, which they mistakenly believe are their assets.
The author, citing the scene in America, says that acquiring your house through a bank loan on the mortgage of your house is acquiring a liability. The same goes for paying for groceries through credit card.
In life, according to the author, what is important is not how much money you `make' but how much of that money you succeed in `keeping' and `multiplying'. The rich know how to keep it because they know how to invest it. Money well invested is money well kept. Good investing is often more rewarding than good earning.
"Real money is made when you `buy' an asset and not when you sell that asset"What the author conveys is that the "price" of the asset when you buy is the sole determinant of your profit on that asset when sold. If you buy that asset cheap, your profit on sale is obviously larger.
The message from the author is simple. Be careful of the price you pay when investing in an asset. Don't rush into buying any investment at any price. Wait till the prices come down the way Super Markets announce sales.
In other words, do as the shoppers do at Super Market Sales.
The author says that in life, when you desire to fly an aircraft you must and therefore you do "learn" flying aircrafts. When you wish to enjoy a bicycle ride, you must and you do "learn" how to ride a bicycle. Maybe you will fall several times before you finally succeed.
But a lay investor who wants to make money on the stockmarket tends to just pick up the phone, speak to his stockbroker, buy a stock and starts dreaming of becoming rich. That is not the way the rich investors who become richer with every passing day go about investing into stocks.
The rich follow the same principle of "learning" to ride a bicycle or flying an aircraft. They therefore first "learn" to "invest". They learn all there is to know about the art of investing in stocks. All about the stocks they wish to buy and only then do they take the plunge.
Above all, they keep practicing what they have learnt. They keep sharpening their saw. This single factor of learning before hand separates the rich investors from the poor investors, says the author.
Comparison of Stock Market with the Super Market: The author says that when Super Markets reduce the prices of the goods and announce a "sale", customers flock into the stores and buy up every little item and build up at home piles of grocery, soaps, etc.
But when Stock Markets reduce the prices of shares and announce a "crash" every investor rushes in to "sell" and runs away from the market.
Again, conversely, when Super Markets raise their prices, customers shy away and refrain from buying till the next "sale"; but when Stock Markets announce rising prices, every investor rushes in to "buy".
This is not the way, again, the rich investors behave. They follow the same principle of buying at the Super Markets. They buy stocks only when the Stock Markets crash. Ask Warren Buffet or John Templeton.
Investing Is Knowing Your Assets and Liability
the author says, is `investing is knowing your assets'. When you move your money from your bank account in order to `invest' you are putting your money into assets like shares, real estate, deposits, etc.
The rich never keep their wealth in the form of liquid money in a bank account. They always keep acquiring assets while the poor acquire liabilities, which they mistakenly believe are their assets.
The author, citing the scene in America, says that acquiring your house through a bank loan on the mortgage of your house is acquiring a liability. The same goes for paying for groceries through credit card.
In life, according to the author, what is important is not how much money you `make' but how much of that money you succeed in `keeping' and `multiplying'. The rich know how to keep it because they know how to invest it. Money well invested is money well kept. Good investing is often more rewarding than good earning.
"Real money is made when you `buy' an asset and not when you sell that asset"What the author conveys is that the "price" of the asset when you buy is the sole determinant of your profit on that asset when sold. If you buy that asset cheap, your profit on sale is obviously larger.
The message from the author is simple. Be careful of the price you pay when investing in an asset. Don't rush into buying any investment at any price. Wait till the prices come down the way Super Markets announce sales.
In other words, do as the shoppers do at Super Market Sales.
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