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    Minesweeper In Python GUI

    I believe there is no need for much introduction to this game. Any Microsoft Window's users would be very familiar with this famous game. I just wanted to try out how it would be, and what I would have learnt if I were to make this out from python + pyqt4. And indeed, I've really gained a lot in the process of writing this game. I won't go thru everything here, but will only pick a few of the...
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  • My Swing Trade Setup

    I always believe that, as a trader, we should always have a nice trading setup that suits our lifestyle (time, commitment, etc) instead of the other way round. Most importantly, the trader should feel as comfortable as possible using the trading setup that they chose/created. Most importantly, everything in the setup should make sense. Every bit and little pieces of the entire thing should feel ..... right and...
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  • It's not the strategy that doesn't work. It's the person.

     It's not the strategy that doesn't work. It's the person. How many times have you heard people complaining that, this strategy doesn't work, I've tried it before, it just doesn't work.But how come the other person whom you got this strategy from, is having this strategy working so well for him? You may ask.Well, I guess it's not the problem of the strategy at all. The problem...
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  • The Power Of Put Option For Long Term Investors

     Now you must be asking, what the hell has option got to do with a Long Term Investing strategy?Well, options is a very powerful tool, used for hedging your long term stocks, managing risk, and a whole other bunch of things that can be achieved.    And for this post, we are only going to talk about Put Options (link). Before we go any further, first of all, we need to understand how the Put...
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  • Sudoku Solver With GUI In Python PyQt4

    This is my first GUI program using python PyQt4, so guys, please don't get too hard on me :) I wrote a sudoku solver using Perl long time ago (link). It doesn't have a GUI, just a simple terminal program that displays out the solution after you've given it the puzzle:- Nothing impressive, and in fact, it looks fugly. :p But, nonetheless, it gets the job done for a guy that loves sudoku, and wanted to...
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  • The Importance of Data Structure Planning in Programming

     I would like to use this example to stress at how important it is to first think properly on how you would like to store your data before anything else in starting a program.It's very important that you store your data in such a way that, it gives you the easiest method to access it when you want to retrieve it in the future.Taking the example of storing the data of all the historical price of a stock into...
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  • Calculating The Intrinsic Value Of A Company Using The Discounted EPS...

    As most of the fundamentalist prefer using the Discounted Cash Flow in their Company valuation, I personally uses this particular method, which I call it, the Discounted EPS method. Valuating a company's value is not an exact science. As a person which is not from a financial background, I personally find the Discounted EPS method makes more sense to me, and thus, I just stick to this way. Basically,...
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  • We can not control out emotions, but we can manage it.

     As we always used to heard people saying ..... - control your emotion- don't get angry- do not be afraid which in fact, is not totally true at all. As a fact, we can never control our emotions.After all, we are humans.Humans have emotions. Just take one for example.When someone suddenly approach you, and give a whack on your face without any particular reason, what is your immediate feeling?Some will...
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  • Finding Winning Edge When Gambling In "Between"

     Just came back from a wonderful Chinese New year reunion. Had a wonderful time doing some catch up with old friends, and get to know some new ones too.Of course, gambling is part of the equation when it comes to chinese gathering, and we had our share of fun too :)This year, we played a new interesting game called "Between". It isn't a new game, but to us, it was our first time playing it.If you...
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  • The Holy Grail Of Trading, Expectancy.

    Trading in the Stock Market is all about understanding some mathematical equation on Expectancy. In order for a trader to improve and gain long term consistent returns, one must definitely fully understand the meaning of expectancy. So, what is this expectancy? Here's the explanation from the Van Tharp Institute:- What is expectancy in a nutshell? A trading system can be characterized as...
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  • How To Determine What's A Good Price To Pay For A Stock

      I've came across quite a number of times where friends and family members or so and so told me about a stock which they claimed that, or they heard from someone that, or they knew that it will be the next 10 bagger counter in the next coming century, but when I asked them that what's price which is considered cheap, and the time that I should buy in, most of the reply I got is a blank stare, follow by...
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  • MasterMind Board Game With GUI In Python PyQt

    Sometime back ago, I has a post on sharing my master mind board game which I wrote it in Perl (link). And since I'm picking up Python +PyQt recently, I though to myself, why not making a GUI MasterMind Board Game using what I've learned. And oh Boy, writing programs is definitely one of the best ways to learn new stuff. You write. You bumped into a bottle neck. You search high and low for answers and...
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  • Guitar Theory Basic

    All music starts with knowing the sequence of the keys. This is the sequence. [ C D E F G A B ] [ C D E F G A B ] ….. continue … Look at the keyboard, and you will understand. In keyboard of a piano, the keys are layout in sequence. If you take into consideration of the black keys, then the sequence of all the keys actually looks like this:- [ C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B ] [ C ...
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  • The 4 Sources Of Company Growth

     The Growth of a company is the next big thing that we will be looking at in one of our investment steps.Growth is the biggest thing that long term investors are drolling over more than anything else, and the only factor that they are willing to pay more than what's a company is worth right now.After all, what is the difference of buying a company's stock rather than a CD that pays a fixed dividend if...
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  • My Long Term Investment Summary

    (all investment data is logged in this Excel Spreadsheet.)(If you are seeing something wierd on the charts, or the charts seems like showing some incorrect data, just click at this Excel Spreadsheet link. Wait for the data to update a while, and then refresh this page. The charts should get back to normal.) Watch List Symbol CurrentEPS($) EstimatedGrowth(%) PE Dividend(%)ExpectedReturn(%) IntrinsicValue Last...
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  • My Top 4 Stock Pick For 2010

    I happened to come across one of the sites of a bunch of investors, and, after reading his blog, and all of his friends' blogs, I ended up faling in love with most of them, and having an additional 9 rss feed in my google reader. It all started with someone from the group initiated a competition. Each one was suppose to pick their best stock pick of the year, and by the end of the year, see who's the top among...
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  • Housing Loan Calculator

     ...... and i was thinking ............Since I've already came up with the Car Loan Calculator, what the hack, might as well come up with the next big things that most people will buy after the car .................and here's the Housing Loan Calculator ^_^    Enjoy ^_^ ===============================TAG : housing, loan, calculator, finance
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  • Sudoku Solver Program Written In Perl

     I like mind twisting games.Games which require lots of thinking interest me the most....... and one of them is undoubtedly, the famous sudoku.  My lunch time normally spans across 1:30 hour, and if I were to eat in, 30 minutes is pretty much the most it takes for me to gobble down my food, leaving a whole lot of time for me to fiddle around.Most of the time, websudoku will be the my favourite.  An...
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  • Using Yield Curve To Gauge The Economy Cycle

     What is a Yield Curve?Here's the definition from thefreedictionary:-At any particular time, the relation between bond yields and maturity lengths. The yield curve usually has a positive slope because yields on long-term bonds generally exceed yields on short-term bonds. The shape of a yield curve is influenced by a number of factors including the relative riskiness between long-term and short-term...
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  • A Simple Tutorial On GUI Programming Using Qt Designer With PyQt4

    I've been searching high and low, trying to dig out the entire internet on this subject for the past few days. It's either the version of the Qt designer doesn't match with what we have, or the PyQt that they have in the net is not the version of what we are using. Either way, it was really a pain in the ass, especially for people like me, that are still quite new to python. After a few days of...
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  • Calculating The Intrinsic Value Of A Company Using The Discounted...

    Calculating the intrinsic value of the company will be the last step in our Stock Valuing Process. There's definitely no reason for use to overpay for a company's stock no matter how good the prospect of the company may look. And thus, we need a valuation method to calculate the Intrinsic Value of a company. There are 2 methods which I'm aware of. - The Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) - The Discounted EPS...
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  • Design Your Own Workout Routine

    A lot of my friends used to ask me how my everyday workout routine looks like. At first, I was thinking of just putting down my weekly workout routine here, but after serious thoughts, I think it's more helpful if I were to share with everyone how you should design your own workout routine. First of all, I would like to mention here that, all the things that I wrote here is just merely my own person point...
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  • The Best Way To Keep Fit, Stay Slim, And Maintain It

    The first thing that came across my mind is undoubtedly jogging(more about jogging). I wouldn't say that I'm a very good runner, but being practicing this and continuously doing it for the past 20 years, I definitely think that, jogging is the best way to burn of those access calories. Here are a few points which I personally think that why jogging fits this position best:- - it's a cheap exercise. All...
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  • Writing Master Mind Board Game In Perl

    I've been playing Master Mind since I was at the age of 5. My dad bought me a very fine thing, which looked exactly like this. It's a very easy game to understand how to play, but needs a lot of logical thinking in solving the puzzle. If you are interested in knowing how to play, the wiki side covers a whole lot of these, including even the varieties of algorithm plus stuff. Here's the rules of the...
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  • Long Term Stock Investment Strategy

    I've been planning to come up with this post for quite some. It serves as my personal check list, so that I won't miss out anything when I do my company stock evaluation. Most of the Long Term Investing approach focus closely on fundamental analysis, and I'm no different here. Most of the stuff here I believe, you've seen it somewhere. It's definitely not from me. I'm just reiterating it here, so that...
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  • A Simple Cashflow 101 Board Game Written In Perl

    A Simple Cashflow 101 Board Game Written In Perl After having the opportunity to play the Cashflow 101 board game, I was totally fascinated by it's capability of sharing and passing down the information on how easily it is to draft out your own Balance sheet and income statement. Here's a brief explanation that I've quoted from wiki:- Cashflow 101 is an educational tool in board game format designed...
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  • Posting Source Code In Your Blogs

    Posting Source Code In Your Blogs After going thru numerous fail attempts, and was almost on the verge of giving up, I finally found this gem. I tried browsing thru the web, searching for ways of how to post up my source codes in my blog, with a decent display look. Some are pathetic. Some are too troublesome. Some are very not user friendly, while others look pretty awesome, but the javascript...
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  • How I Wrote My Stock Scanner With Perl - Part 1

     How I Wrote My Stock Scanner With Perl - Part 1 After I came across this site, which shows how they used a PHP and MySQL to come up with a stock trading system, I decided to share my part on how I came up with my own stock scanner site, though I believe my programming skill is still not up to standard. First of all, I think I'll just skip the part whereby how I previously downloaded the stock quotes...
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  • The 5 Types Of Economic Moats

     What is a Economic Moat, and why is it so important that when finding a company to invest in, we look for this criteria so thoroughly? Here's an explanation quoted directly from Investopedia:-The term economic moat, coined and popularized by Warren Buffett, refers to a business' ability to maintain competitive advantages over its competitors in order to protect its long-term profits and market...
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  • Writing Sudoku Solver Program In Perl

    Sudoku Solver In Perl As always, before anything is done, a proper planning on how you design your data structure will decide how efficient the entire flow will be. (read here about the importance of data structure planning) But, before we can know what kind of data structure suits your program, we need to know how our program flow looks like. Having a rough idea on how your overall program flow looks like,...
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  • Car Loan Calculator

     One of my friends was recently looking to buy a car, and we somehow touched on the topic of car loans and stuff.After showing him how to calculate for the monthly installment, and total interest that he needs to pay back to the bank and stuff like that, it strucked me that, hey, this might be helpful, and thus, here it is.   Have fun ^_^ ============================= TAG : car, loan, calculator,...
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Earning A Living Thru Gambling?

Sep 1st

Posted by lionel in Finance

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For those that are planning to earn a living thru gambling, without any proper preparation on whatsoever training/knowledge, you may want to refer to these 2 videos first before delving seriously into it …… Well, I’m not saying that it’s impossible to earn a living thru gambling, but you’ve really got to know your stuff

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Stock Market Update : Week 34

Aug 28th

Posted by lionel in Market Updates

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SPY has came close to the $104 support line, and the last 3 trading days has shown that this support is currently a valid one, with price bouncing off this level. The gap that was opened on Tuesday around $107 will be the immediate resistance that it has to break in order to break out

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Finding Time On Different Time Zone With Perl

Aug 25th

Posted by lionel in Perl

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If you have the experience of working with different time zone, writing scripts that generates the time that matches with your local time is something that you might have come across. Well, here’s one perl module which is just what you might be looking for. Use Time::Zone Use Date::Format Use Date::Parse ### Get our local

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Stock Market Update : Week 33

Aug 22nd

Posted by lionel in Market Updates

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SPY was in a very tight range last week. Ever since the SPY broke below it’s trend line 2 weeks ago, everyone has been guessing which direction will the market move in the near future. As of now, that is really something which is very unclear, and from the look of it, i believe traders

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Stock Market Update : Week 32

Aug 14th

Posted by lionel in Market Updates

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SPY traded back below it’s 200MA once again. The $113 level, which was the previous peak made during mid July proven to be too tough a resistance for SPY to clear this time. With the break down on last wednesday’s candle, it not only came below the 200MA support, it also broke the up sloping

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The Complete Book Of Intelligence Test

Aug 8th

Posted by lionel in Book

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I recently stumbled upon this book in Borders, and find it very interesting after flipping thru the first few pages. I decided to buy it back. Author: Bremner, Carter, Russell, Fulton Introduction: A book that helps discover how smart your really are – and improve !!! (the improve part is what made me made up

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Stock Market Update : Week 31

Aug 7th

Posted by lionel in Market Updates

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The U.S. stock market has been trading in a narrow congestion range for the past week. For the entire week, it moved hardly more than $2, which is approximately less than 2%. Overhead resistance is seen at $113, the previous high made on mid Jun, while the immediate support is at previous hurdle that it

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Stock Market Update : Week 30

Jul 31st

Posted by lionel in Market Updates

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It looks like the market has formed an inverted Head and Shoulder (H&S) pattern. The H&S neckline, was drawn in beige color. Price managed to break out from the horizontal resistance at around $110, which also coincidently was the area of the H%S neckline. It did make a pullback, but  looks like it was well

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Protected: Messy Cats

Jul 30th

Posted by lionel in Personal

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Analysis Of Industry Sector : Energy Sector

Jul 30th

Posted by lionel in Finance

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Sector : Energy Sector Description : Energy source comes in many form, and those includes:- wind coal nuclear solar hidro electric Oil & Gas … but nothing beats the hugh margin from the business of Oil & Natural Gas. Normal usage of energy range from providing fuel for all types of vehicles such as cars,

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