Ho John Lee’s Weblog

• Korvus’ RSIApp
  An online tool for screening stock ticker symbols against Bill Cara’s RSI accumulation/distribution zone model.
  (tags: stock investing technical trading ideas screener)
• Streetkid-run bank in New Delhi - Boing Boing
  The Childrens Development Bank in New Delhi, India has more than 1,000 street children who have formed a successfully operating bank.
  (tags: india microfinance emerging markets global social investment money trends)

Another day, another subprime-related fiasco. Today GE Asset Management announced that one of its not-quite-money-market short bond funds, the Enhanced Cash Trust, took a loss from subprime holdings, and is offering customer redemptions at 96 cents on the dollar. Normally these funds are considered to be a higher-yielding version of a money market fund. This would make you pretty unhappy if you were looking for 5%-ish stable returns while waiting for the stock market to settle down.

Along these lines, here are British comedians John Fortune & John Bird chatting about the state of the banking system, Northern Rock, and subprime in another interview of “George Parr, investment banker” from last month.

See also: Subprime crisis explained, by British comedians

• The Geometry of Draw Tools
  Overview of price chart trend and retrace constructions, with illustrations.
  (tags: stock trading education resource technical charting)

• PCs being pushed aside in Japan - Yahoo! News
  Anecdotal indications of more shift from PCs towards mobile devices.
  (tags: mobile ubicomp japan technology personal computing trends)

• Notebook Hardware Control (NHC) - Homepage, Downloads, Help, Docu, FAQ, News - www.pbus-167.com
  A nice utility for controlling ACPI features, CPU clock, SMART diagnostics, and other low level hardware features on Windows notebook computers.
  (tags: windows notebook hardware software tools sysadmin mobile power management)
• ThinkPad Computer Hardware Maintenance Manual February (T40/p,T41/p,T42/p) - 2006 (PDF)
  Service manual for Thinkpad T4x series.
  (tags: ibm lenovo thinkpad hardware sysadmin)

• Temporary Open Market Operations - Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  Daily fed open market operation summary.
  (tags: federal reserve monetary policy markets trading economy)

• Fed Pumps $41B Into US Financial System: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
  Injects $41 billion into the U.S. financial system Thursday, the largest since September 2001, to help companies get through a credit crunch. Partly accounts for yesterday’s odd trading post FOMC?
  (tags: federal reserve stock market economy trading finance monetary policy)
• Las Vegas Sands Posts Unexpected Loss as Gamblers Win - Bloomberg.com
  Bad luck at the tables - casino’s winning percentage in baccarat, blackjack and other games was 14.7 percent, below its forecast range of 20 to 22 percent and last year’s winning percentage of 23.4 percent.
  (tags: casino business statistics stock trading investing lvs)

• New California regulations may push hedge funds out of state - MarketWatch
  Proposed rule would require state registration of funds with less than 15 clients in state but more than $25MM under management.
  (tags: hedgefund california state regulation)
• YouTube - The Day The Routers Died…
  A song performed by the secret-wg in the closing plenary of the RIPE 55 conference, re the impending transition from IPv4 to IPv6.
  (tags: internet protocol networking ipv6 geek humor)
• CCleaner - Home
  Freeware windows utility for cleaning up unused files, registry entries, etc
  (tags: windows sysadmin utilities tools free software)