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Some say the UPA ..some say the previous governments.But the very fact is that the UPA , the NDA and any other party for that matter are all one and the same.And moreover we ourselves have let go of the rights to blame any government or individual for we are an integral part of this corrupt system.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Here i should mention a piece of text i came across on the internet in which&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Ashleigh Brilliant says''&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i style="font-style: normal;"&gt;I want&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;either less&amp;nbsp;&lt;i style="font-style: normal;"&gt;corruption&lt;/i&gt;, or more&amp;nbsp;&lt;i style="font-style: normal;"&gt;chance to participate in it&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;''&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;I see rallies , protests against politicians , bureaucrats by people who themselves have been corrupt all their lives.Just that their levels and pace of corrupt practices have been of &amp;nbsp;different levels,much lower that what could catch the media attention. Everyone shares angry status updates on facebook , twitter after a scam breaks out.Folks, must tell you..get out of that arm chair,off the internet and start contributing if you want to.Writing slogans and updates to decorate your facebook wall is not going to make any difference.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;I myself have been corrupt at different levels and have lost my right to protest against such scams and so&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;have YOU.The news feed on Anna ji has become a source of entertainment for many and all would be forgotten as soon as the its off air and the things like Swayamwar and Roadies again garner the attention of the 'In' thing hungry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Those netizens who say the government is corrupt and they are not have therefore acquired the right to vent the anger on personal blogs and networking sites.They say A Raja looted the country of 2 lakh crore rupees , Mr Kalmadi bought toilet papers for Rs 5000 , Telecom companies swindled money , Air India was mismanaged....Yes all this has happened but are you guys any different.What are you doing about it ?? Let me tell you..Nothing.In fact everyone of us is a part of this corrupt regime.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Swiping that attendance card as a proxy &amp;nbsp;for someone, making fake reimbursement bills , bribing a babu , breaking a signal , real estate payments in black components , not paying enough taxes also amount to corruption if most of the anti-corruption crusaders are unaware in case.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This very well reminds me of the movie critics writings columns in newspapers and on the Internet bashing the story lines , cast and the quality of the movie.They can tell whats wrong with a movie and reading the column makes you believe that every movie this critic will make henceforth will turn out to be a blockbuster for the fact that he knows everything that needs to be done to make a good movie.Some even tried to but then realised that its better to remain a critic.It is anyway far easier to blame or bash anything sitting in the office than trying to solve the purpose.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OXwrgukqwr8/Tkz2m2z2b2I/AAAAAAAABeM/9XWbCw8VP7s/s1600/corruption4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="257" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OXwrgukqwr8/Tkz2m2z2b2I/AAAAAAAABeM/9XWbCw8VP7s/s400/corruption4.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I am an info junkie and want to know every piece of information and news that i can get my hands on.Orkut , Google plus, facebook, twitter and the online world is my workspace and for the last two days its all about shree Anna Hazare ji and the team.They say the man is incorruptible and the records suggest the same.The movement involves a motive that can change the system for good.But all this will not be solved with the JanLokpal bill because then every single Indian will have to be put behind bars.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Also the reports coming in suggest that several politicians including those accused of being involved in scams have pledged support to Anna Hazare ji.Surprised ??Is it Any different than what we are doing ?? Let us start to follow what we are preaching .It will take some time for us to adjust the temptation of giving in to the corrupt regime but if we are able to do this it will be the true JanLokpal Anna ji is looking for.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Also everyone might argue that we are such not by choice but because the system makes us behave that way.But then if you are this angry at the system , how about trying the bottom up approach...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/500640203437061589-7645257965045714484?l=www.investlane.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;@For the week ending August 19.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The week again saw a fall of around 4.5 % in the index taking down the pack with it.A lot of stocks lost much more and IT and Banks were the big losers where the indexes lost 5.6 % and 7.5% respectively.The stocks right now may appear to be at a good level relative to the highs that they have made but the fall may just not have been arrested yet.Anyway a bounce or relief rally is on cards given &amp;nbsp;the extent to which the markets have fallen but for that certain levels are to be followed..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;FII &amp;amp; DII Turnover (BSE + NSE)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;table align="center" border="0" style="width: 400px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" colspan="7" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;" valign="top"&gt;(Rs. crore)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" class="tbhead" style="background-color: #0089cf; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" class="tbhead" colspan="3" style="background-color: #0089cf; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" valign="top"&gt;FII&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" class="tbhead" colspan="3" style="background-color: #0089cf; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" valign="top"&gt;DII&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" class="tbhead" style="background-color: #0089cf; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" valign="top"&gt;Trade Date&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" class="tbhead" style="background-color: #0089cf; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" valign="top"&gt;Buy&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" class="tbhead" style="background-color: #0089cf; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" valign="top"&gt;Sales&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" class="tbhead" style="background-color: #0089cf; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" valign="top"&gt;Net&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" class="tbhead" style="background-color: #0089cf; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" valign="top"&gt;Buy&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" class="tbhead" style="background-color: #0089cf; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" valign="top"&gt;Sales&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" class="tbhead" style="background-color: #0089cf; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" valign="top"&gt;Net&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;19/8/11&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;2,816.01&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;3,718.62&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" bgcolor="#bcc7d2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;-902.61&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;1,653.42&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;1,230.17&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" bgcolor="#bcc7d2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;423.25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;18/8/11&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;2,388.42&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;2,877.09&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" bgcolor="#bcc7d2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;-488.67&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;1,291.78&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;961.36&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" bgcolor="#bcc7d2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;330.42&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;17/8/11&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;2,262.74&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;2,670.42&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" bgcolor="#bcc7d2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;-407.68&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;1,061.56&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;892.14&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" bgcolor="#bcc7d2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;169.42&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Aug ,&amp;nbsp;11&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;32,308.95&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;41,265.45&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" bgcolor="#bcc7d2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;-8,956.50&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;22,165.39&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;15,445.98&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" bgcolor="#bcc7d2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;6,719.41&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Since 1/1/11 &amp;nbsp; *&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;409,259.50&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;423,255.23&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" bgcolor="#bcc7d2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;-13,995.73&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;194,740.41&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" class="tbmain" style="background-color: #e6eef1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"&gt;173,708.39&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" bgcolor="#bcc7d2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;21,032.02&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;FII's have been &amp;nbsp;on a selling spree this august as you can see in the report downloaded from bseindia.com.The continuos downtrend and the selling pressure is not giving the market opportunity to bounce back.To add to it the continuous fall of the American indices Dowjones and Nasdaq are also falling continuously.Let us see the charts to get hold of the situation..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3oTkkTqlszE/TlDcD0IHl-I/AAAAAAAABeQ/H66ohv39ojw/s1600/jcharts%25283%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="310" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3oTkkTqlszE/TlDcD0IHl-I/AAAAAAAABeQ/H66ohv39ojw/s400/jcharts%25283%2529.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lTSOAgaBTGk/TlDcEW0RtRI/AAAAAAAABeU/QF5Gp7s8r3A/s1600/jcharts%25282%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="310" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lTSOAgaBTGk/TlDcEW0RtRI/AAAAAAAABeU/QF5Gp7s8r3A/s400/jcharts%25282%2529.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Nifty short term charts show that the index is in a downchannel even in the short term timeframes and no indication of upmove can be seen.Only hint of a rel;ief rally can be seen if the downchannel is broken which would cause the short term shorts to run for cover and cause an upmove.whether the upmove will last is another question.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;@For the week ending August 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The global cues has been causing a lot of volatility in india also and this time it was broadly on the downside.The gapdown open resulted in nifty testing sub 5100 levels.Though there was a recovery intraday , nifty still closed 120 points down for the day at 5210 levels.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Now as per what i read the bad news has not stopped coming in and the culprit in most cases is the US. In a new developement &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/06/us-usa-sp-downgrade-text-idUSTRE7750D320110806"&gt;S&amp;amp;P lowers United States credit rating to AA+&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px;"&gt;which is reeling under deficit ,unemployment problems. But as what can be considered a rare good for the scenario is that the unemployment rate has reduced to 9.1%. There are talks all around of the country falling into a double dip recession again.If that happens then be very&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px;"&gt;sure that we are in for a trouble again bacause the shocks are sure to travel across the continents.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"&gt;What are we supposed to do now ?? &amp;nbsp;Well ..Here are some charts presenting what can be expected.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #783f04; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #783f04; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-COkJCWEAKR4/Tj5ijiXqbsI/AAAAAAAABds/9grt0FL4w2g/s1600/jcharts.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="310" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-COkJCWEAKR4/Tj5ijiXqbsI/AAAAAAAABds/9grt0FL4w2g/s400/jcharts.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #783f04; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VS28Ek0nMx0/Tj5k0bV5A8I/AAAAAAAABdw/gRGo-uYEJug/s1600/banknifty.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="310" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VS28Ek0nMx0/Tj5k0bV5A8I/AAAAAAAABdw/gRGo-uYEJug/s400/banknifty.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MgkpL-D9dVI/Tj5loz-opVI/AAAAAAAABd0/zM02XTAYLFA/s1600/Ril.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="285" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MgkpL-D9dVI/Tj5loz-opVI/AAAAAAAABd0/zM02XTAYLFA/s400/Ril.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #783f04; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #783f04; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; line-height: 14px;"&gt;All the charts above ( Sensex , Banknifty and Reliance India respectively ) here show that the downtrend is still very much on for the short term though there is a possiblity of a quick retracement.If it happens and sustains we will again try to analyse the fact that its just retracement bounce or continuation of the Major uptrend.Till them no major longs advisable on the upside.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; 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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/xf814An3neZQb_vmOnLilkds0_E/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/xf814An3neZQb_vmOnLilkds0_E/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.investlane.com/2011/08/weekly-report.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sunil Jaiswani)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3oTkkTqlszE/TlDcD0IHl-I/AAAAAAAABeQ/H66ohv39ojw/s72-c/jcharts%25283%2529.png" height="72" width="72" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500640203437061589.post-6228072942185658165</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 11:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-19T04:46:54.305-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">analysis</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">business</category><title>Speak Asia Online..My View</title><description>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;Now how could i not write my views about something the nation is talking about ..SpeakAsiaOnline , an online company which pays you for your valuable opinion and said to be Asia's largest online survey company &amp;nbsp;claims to have a business model, returns from which can easily beat any investment options available.Before we get into calculations here is some information about the company and mode of operations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--QHxutEIsDM/TdOviJWsCrI/AAAAAAAABYY/_jiQmz760vs/s1600/Speak-Asia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--QHxutEIsDM/TdOviJWsCrI/AAAAAAAABYY/_jiQmz760vs/s1600/Speak-Asia.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;SpeakAsia claims to be located in Singapore and is owned by Harinder Kaur.The company operations remain to be completely online which as per laws does not require them to have a country specific registration.This was informed in reply to the questions of it not having an office or not being registered in India.The company has seen exponential growth in India and registered approx 15 lakh panelists or opinion provides in a very short span of time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_admKCjOUho/TdOjbyVxf-I/AAAAAAAABYU/6Ia9TFxUGto/s1600/5ps1o_New-Sheet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="186" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_admKCjOUho/TdOjbyVxf-I/AAAAAAAABYU/6Ia9TFxUGto/s320/5ps1o_New-Sheet.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;The formal introduction doesn't provide much information about the way the company is operating in India.The mode of operation is similar to the MLM ( multi level marketing ) formations shown here where a person joins the company and then forms a chain of people below it in a fashion that it fetches an incentive for all the people that have joined below the person in the chain.Here person 1 will receive monetary incentive from the company for making 2 people join.similarly person 2 and person 3 will also benefit from those who have joined below them.Such a binary chain like structure moves in to exponential growth mode going beyond some levels as more and more people get involved &amp;nbsp;and thus in turn refer more people to join.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;When you join Speak Asia Online you pay a certain amount ( 11000/- ) for a year to join them as a premium panelist.After which you receive 2 survey per week which you can fill anytime within a month and receive 500 INR per survey from the company.Also if you make people join below you for the same mentioned fees you tend to receive an incentive in the form of referral income.This is mainly to motivate people to make more people join.While the person who has referred gets a small incentive, majority of the money goes to the company.The newly joined people also get survey to fill and can make more people join to receive incentives.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;Now the real deal....Is the company for real or a big scam is in the offing?? We cannot be judgemental because a lot of 'SpeakAsians' do believe that the company is genuine and has fulfilled all its promises and payments.But still the recent reports have put doubts in the minds of many for which the company also could not provide the answers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;1) &lt;b&gt;ROI : Return on Investment &lt;/b&gt;: As per the company franchises and agents ( panelists ) a return of 48000 on an investment of 11000 for an year is being promised.That amounts to a return of more than 400% in a year.Now a person not new to investing and with some experience can easily guess why do i smell fish in this.Being actively involved in stock markets i can easily suggest that with this much growth rate when compounded you can easily leave warren buffet behind in terms of wealth.This is the very reason that is making people join the company i.e high returns and quick money without much work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Company's Take&lt;/b&gt; : As per what was informed in the recent press conference it was said that they do not promise X amount of returns to the investor.Moreover they also refused to accept taking money for registration .As per them the amount being collected from investors is for the subscription of an e magazine or ezine from the company.All this is clearly contradictory to what the agents and franchises have been telling people and selling memberships.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;2) &lt;b&gt;Panelist&lt;/b&gt; : Also to notice is that anyone and everyone can join and fill surveys and there is not minimum qualification or prerequisites needed to join.Moreover any one person can join multiple number of survey id's.for example i can buy 10 ids and fill the same survey again and again and receive money for all and make more money.Only that i need to pay 11000 * 10 to have more id's .Now why would any company pay more money for same set of opinions .clearly the motive is to generate maximum amount from a single person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Company's Take&lt;/b&gt; : Here the company states that a single person is allowed to join multiple survey id's so as they can have people from their family express their opinion and not fill the same surveys by themselves.But also in the conference they mentioned that they are not a survey company but an integrated market research company and I honestly do not know what that means :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;3) &lt;b&gt;Clients and Currency Conversions&lt;/b&gt; : Speak Asia has mentioned that companies like bata , samsung and icici bank are some of the clients it is providing survey research reports to,but as have been confirmed by various news agencies all these companies have denied buying any survey from Speak Asia.Also similar names were taken by a marketing officer of the company while being interviewed by a news channel as being their clients.Also the officer said that the foreign exchange transactions in India take place through &amp;nbsp;ING VYSYA bank.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Company's Take&lt;/b&gt; In the press conference when asked this question the company representative apologised to the the mentioned companies and blamed some communication error.They offered an unconditional apology which is good on part of the company.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;4) &lt;b&gt;Earnings&lt;/b&gt; &amp;nbsp;: The only visible source of earnings for the company is the subscription fees they receive for the e-zines and while 15 lakh people have already joined the earnings are astronomical.The modus operation appear similar to the ponzi scheme where people joined at different levels pay for the people at previous levels.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Company's Take&lt;/b&gt; : As per the company they make most of their money from advertisements , selling market research.They do not promise to return any money to investors but they will continue to receive the ezines for which they have paid.Also they said that the client list cannot be shared with others as this will affect their business.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Personal experience&lt;/b&gt; ; Now if you ask me , i myself am a panelist in the company and joined after repeated persuasion by a friend to join.the payouts till now has been smooth which exactly is the reason why people earning well from the company are not ready to believe they have done anything wrong.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;Contrary to what the company says agents and franchises at the ground level are promising the returns of 400% to people and have also made people join who are not capable of reading surveys let alone fill them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;Clearly the current panelist are being paid on the expense of new joining and until the company changes the business model drastically the current returns are hard to sustain ( read impossible ).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;The company has also refused that they have any operations in Bangladesh after joining hoards of people in the scheme there.Similar conditions can easily be seen in India because as per news channels regulatory bodies are soon to get involved and certain high profile people are to file FIR against the company result of which ultimately will declare whether the company is genuine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;My advise to all the Speak Asians who trust the company ; make hay while the sun shines but also remain cautious before the thing get more clear..Personally i would continue with same number of Id;s as my investment is already recovered and will not invest any more money into the company.As they say..Money Saved is Money earned ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;PS : I have tried not to hurt the sentiments of SpeakAsians by being judgmental about the company, that is for the readers to decide.but still the returns offered seem to be unsustainable and by taking a practical , non emotional approach you can save yourself from big losses.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/500640203437061589-6228072942185658165?l=www.investlane.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/iN_CuHQFjecjZglnbHF3GQTsBdY/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/iN_CuHQFjecjZglnbHF3GQTsBdY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.investlane.com/2011/05/speak-asia-onlinemy-view.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sunil Jaiswani)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--QHxutEIsDM/TdOviJWsCrI/AAAAAAAABYY/_jiQmz760vs/s72-c/Speak-Asia.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500640203437061589.post-2070771093641218486</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-19T04:47:04.183-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">charts</category><title>Importance of Stoploss Levels..</title><description>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;How often do you remember using a stop loss order on your trades ?? Even if your answer is 'never' , it will hardly surprise me because this is the most important aspect of trading in the stock markets which remains to be ignored by new traders and Investors.While the seasoned traders give utmost importance to it , the reason of which is explained here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_x2wiXkJryRo/TX8lQ3KfPoI/AAAAAAAABV4/mvCs-xle9r4/s1600-h/Stock-Trading-Loss%5B4%5D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Loss" border="0" height="203" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_x2wiXkJryRo/TX8lRyzCEII/AAAAAAAABV8/uRlYlfEeMXQ/Stock-Trading-Loss_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline;" title="Loss" width="195" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;                &lt;br /&gt;The term 'Stop Loss' order itself indicates the very purpose of it. Lets us take an example..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suppose You have bought Stock X at 1000 for a target of 1200 or more.That places the profit potential at 20%.But what about the loss potential ..or exit strategy if in case the stock does not go up and starts crashing.The trade means you are ready to accept a profit of 200 rs per share on your trade but have not assumed of the condition in case the stock goes down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;For that purpose the Stop loss level comes in.The purpose is to define the maximum loss you are willing to take for a profit potential of rs 200 on a 1000 rs stock ,or the other way round the % ( percentage) of your money you are willing to risk to make a profit of 20%.You cannot and should not take unlimited risk for if the stock moves southwards you can face huge losses on your capital and along with it face blockage of capital.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Also to make you familiar with the process let us define the term risk/reward ratio.The Risk ( r )you are taking on your capital to make a profit or reward of (R) and to make continuous profits in the markets your r/R must be less than 1&amp;nbsp; given you can have a consistent accuracy of more than 50% in your trades.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;r/R ( risk/Reward ) &amp;lt; 1 &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason can be explained with the stock X you bought for 1000 rs for 1200 rs target.Suppose you have a sell order for Stock x at 900 to stop your loss from getting bigger than 10% in case the stock starts falling.Now assume you do 10 such trades 5 times out of which the target is achieved and 5 times the stop loss gets hit.The accuracy stands at 50% and the total profit comes out to be :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;( 200*5 - 100*5 ) = 100*5 = 500&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Thus in spite of taking 50% wrong decisions you end up with a profit of 500 rs or&amp;nbsp; 50% on your capital from your trades.Now consider these cases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Case 1) No stop loss&lt;/span&gt; : That makes your risk infinite for when some of the stocks when start to fall in bad times , never see their previous highs ever again.This can result in huge losses.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Case 2) risk/Reward=1&lt;/span&gt; : i.e stop loss of 200 and a profit potential of 200 in the case of stock X.Thus after being 50% right and 50% wrong we end up making no profits.More accuracy would help in this case though. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Case 3) risk /Reward &amp;lt; 1&lt;/span&gt; : i.e bigger target and a smaller loss risk.These trade when made even with 50% accuracy can prove to be rewarding.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Case 4) risk/Reward &amp;gt; 1&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; ( stop loss greater than target ) : Taking such trades with big stop loss orders is not advisable.As only a few bad trades can result in a big loss.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;All Above calculations apply only if you apply a stop loss order to your trades either long or short.Without stop loss orders surviving in the stock markets is near to impossible.Also another factor that plays a role in deciding about Stops is the time frame you are entering the markets. In case of investments and larger time frames exit options can be relaxed if you believe in the company and the future prospects.But in any case,being on the safe side doesn't hurt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/500640203437061589-2070771093641218486?l=www.investlane.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I bet you have but do you also know that this can be termed as the most powerful mathematical tool amongst all others.The important aspect of the power of compounding remains to be the simplicity of its application and calcualtion.It refers to reinvestment of the returns or income into the principal amount.The subsequent returns are much higher as the base capital grows.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Suppose you have Rs 1000 in your account which you have invested in stocks or any other instrument.Over a year if you manage to get a return of 10% on your investment you will have 1100 rs at the end of the year.Second year if you manage the same returns the total amount would be 1100 + 10% of 1000 +10% of 100 = 1210.With the same annual interest and subsequently increasing base capital the return amount goes on increasing which can be calculated as per the formula of compound interest..&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Return at the end of n years = x ( 1+ I/100) ^n&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;X = principal amount. &amp;nbsp;I = interest rate or returns . N= number of years.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;@ In case of variable returns I does not remain constant&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_x2wiXkJryRo/TMARsbQ56wI/AAAAAAAABTE/FCLbD6dfbPU/s1600/compound-interest-graph.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_x2wiXkJryRo/TMARsbQ56wI/AAAAAAAABTE/FCLbD6dfbPU/s320/compound-interest-graph.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;The charts shows the gains when compounded in comparison to simple interest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;I meet people who ask me what to invest in , which stocks would be good and how much return can one expect on stocks and other instruments.They come to invest after looking at stock lists published in major websites like nseindia and bseindia.com which shows daily increments to the tune of 10% , 20% in major gainers list. They want to know which stock will move 20% tommorow.Impossible to know if you ask me.If i knew of stocks thats going to move up 20% tommorow I would've retired of work by now.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The conditions also become hard to be explained to newcomers who have'not seen the downturn of last 2-3 years and only have got to see the daily ,weekly gains the stocks are making in the last one year.Suppose if you invest Rs 1 lakh in equity and manage to fetch a return of 100 % in a year ( which many expect to gain within a few weeks given the current market conditions ) and compound it for 10 years the amount comes out to be 1024 lakhs = nearly 10 crores. If earning money in markets consistantly was this easy everyone would be doing the same and not waste their time on anything else.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The sane thing would be to define a good sustainable percentage return and work towards achieving the same.A decent percentage return when compounded annually can take a huge turn at later stages when the principal gets bigger and not to get dragged into scam multibagger scrips because the case in general is that people who are looking for instant gains would not have the patience to wait for a scrip to become a multibagger.The early you start better it is because of the significant gains your investments can generate in the later stages.Be patient ,start early and compound is the mantra.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/500640203437061589-4306411114692061828?l=www.investlane.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Kb5HRXmGi7vTvmP7lx9TL9FyuxM/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Kb5HRXmGi7vTvmP7lx9TL9FyuxM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.investlane.com/2010/10/power-of-compounding.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sunil Jaiswani)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_x2wiXkJryRo/TMARsbQ56wI/AAAAAAAABTE/FCLbD6dfbPU/s72-c/compound-interest-graph.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500640203437061589.post-6318543025495110176</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-19T04:51:04.874-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">economy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">business</category><title>Inspiring Story of Karuturi Global..</title><description>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x2wiXkJryRo/TEiP6-LGtZI/AAAAAAAABR8/ihTUvW5BQlQ/s1600/21rose6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="165" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x2wiXkJryRo/TEiP6-LGtZI/AAAAAAAABR8/ihTUvW5BQlQ/s200/21rose6.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He is the world's largest exporter of roses. His company has leased 3,000 sq km of land (that is five times bigger than Mumbai, which is 603.4 sq km in size!) in Ethiopia. Here is his amazing story..&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;With 15 per cent of the global market in his grasp, Karuturi, today, is the world's largest exporter of roses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div style="display: inline !important;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div style="display: inline !important; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="display: inline !important;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Three years ago, he&amp;nbsp;added agriculture to his bandwagon. Today, his company Karuturi Global Ltd has 3,000 sq km of agricultural land in Ethiopia (that is 5 times the size of Mumbai!) and 239 hectares of land for rose cultivation.Here is his story of Sai Ramakrishna karuturi fro the man himself..&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div style="display: inline !important; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="display: inline !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;n 1994, I zeroed in on the flower business. I was immensely influenced by management guru Michael Porter's theory of 'Sustainable Competitive Advantage'. I was looking at any business that has sustainable competitive advantage from India into the global market.I never looked at a business that supplied into India or into a particular region. I wanted to start an enterprise that would sustain itself globally. I was looking at a variety of businesses and the flower business appealed to me the most.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;When I visited Israel, I perceived the enormity of the flower businesses, and it left a mark on me. I fell in love with this business, and my passion for it has not dimmed in all these years.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;I started with a shoe-string budget of Rs 133,000 which was what I had in my bank account then. Bank loans were easy to get for this sector and many others were also getting into the business with crores of rupees. Then, my father gave me a seed capital of Rs 50 lakh (Rs 5 million). I approached IDBI and they sanctioned Rs 5 crore (Rs 50 million).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;The building block of our success started with frugality and the Indian way of stretching the rupee thin. Our capital and revenue costs were kept very low.I built this business on very strong foundations of keeping costs low and that has helped us reach where we are today!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Moving to Africa&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;W&lt;/span&gt;e had about 10 hectares of farmland in India and we had reached about Rs 4-5 crore (Rs 40-50 million) of sales when I thought of expanding our horizon.I found that we were not competitive in Europe because they had an import duty on Indian products which our competitors from Africa didn't have to suffer from. So, they had a 9 per cent cost advantage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;Freight costs were also lower. They were paying 25 per cent to 30 per cent lower airfare than what we were paying to Europe. We just couldn't compete with Africa. We looked all over India but could not get contiguous land.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x2wiXkJryRo/TEiQtUOo_RI/AAAAAAAABSA/ghbvKKuu9LE/s1600/21rose9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x2wiXkJryRo/TEiQtUOo_RI/AAAAAAAABSA/ghbvKKuu9LE/s200/21rose9.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So, in 2000, I decided to move to Africa. The idea came to me when I bumped into a former manager of ours who had migrated to Africa. Till then, Africa was a faraway land where somebody was doing something.When I went to Africa, I was astounded by the scale, the profitability and the sustainability of the business. I realised we had a 40 per cent cost advantage there.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Units in Ethiopia and Kenya&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;decided to set up a unit in Ethiopia in 2004. The Ethiopian ecosystem was quite welcoming. It was easier buying land there than in India. I started with Rs 18 lakh (Rs 1.8 million) and it was like testing the waters. By the end of the first year, we had invested Rs 7 crore (Rs 70 million).&amp;nbsp;Over the&amp;nbsp;years we went on investing in land and today, we have close to $170 million invested there.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;We are now the world's largest rose company. We produce one-and-a-half million stems of roses every day in Ethiopia and Kenya together. We employ about 9,000 people there and 1,000 here in India.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;In Africa, we run our own hospitals, schools and football clubs. We employ only the locals. We take good care of them and they take good care of our business.Today, we have a 9 per cent market share in Europe and we are heading for a 15 per cent market share as we are doing a lot of expansion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;Today, we produce 650 million roses a year, which is about 2 million roses a day. We are looking for a billion rose stem capacity! Every day, we send one charter flight from Africa to Europe.The Indian production goes mainly to the Indian market. We don't export from India any more. Today, 95 per cent of our production is in Africa. So, I spend 15 days a month in Africa.We harvest roses five times a day and process them the same day. They are despatched early next morning, and they reach the destination by the end of the day. They are sold on the third day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Moving to agriculture&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;hree years ago in 2007, we decided to buy land in Ethiopia for agriculture. Today, we have 3,000 sq km of land which is&amp;nbsp;5 times the size of Mumbai, and it makes us one of the world's largest landlords! I never thought of becoming a landlord, much less one of the world's largest. That was not a goal at all.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;We harvest rice, maize, vegetables, palm oil, and sugarcane. We produce about 5 million tonnes of rice which we export to many countries. That is about one per cent of the world's rice production and 20 per cent of the traded volume in the global market.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;We have already been rated by UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)&amp;nbsp;as a member of the 25 largest transnational corporations in agriculture. I want to be ranked among the top 5 and make every Indian proud that one of their own has reached the heights, not in IT but in agriculture.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Future plans&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;hough horticulture is the main driver of our business, in the next 24 months, agriculture will be twice as big as horticulture.We expect incremental revenues from agriculture to go past $600-700 million and I don't see horticulture revenues going past $200 million (it is currently $150 million).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;Disclaimer : This Story was published by www.rediff.com and all the above text is copied from the same.I found the story very inspiring and thus sharing on the blog.For the original story click on&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/jul/22/slide-show-1-meet-the-worlds-largest-exporter-of-roses.htm#contentTop"&gt;http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/jul/22/slide-show-1-meet-the-worlds-largest-exporter-of-roses.htm#contentTop&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/500640203437061589-6318543025495110176?l=www.investlane.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/E7IGAkNmP1hIAUXcwThUa2RqAjg/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/E7IGAkNmP1hIAUXcwThUa2RqAjg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.investlane.com/2010/07/inspiring-story-of-karuturi-global.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sunil Jaiswani)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x2wiXkJryRo/TEiP6-LGtZI/AAAAAAAABR8/ihTUvW5BQlQ/s72-c/21rose6.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500640203437061589.post-5163260483430863707</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-19T04:51:35.434-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">commodity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">charts</category><title>Mcx Gold charts..</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_x2wiXkJryRo/S58e7Rh3dSI/AAAAAAAABPI/jDwCAbnpuHg/s1600-h/M.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="173" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_x2wiXkJryRo/S58e7Rh3dSI/AAAAAAAABPI/jDwCAbnpuHg/s400/M.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Monthly chart of gold still shows the price uptrend.The prices remain to be stable above the Ema's and no signs of divergence are there ..the emas's still remain to be well spaced which incidently might lead to a small fall or consolidation to create a base at current levels for the next upmove.The extent of the fall would be something to monitor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_x2wiXkJryRo/S58e7rJuk5I/AAAAAAAABPM/RHkonK77da0/s1600-h/W.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="136" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_x2wiXkJryRo/S58e7rJuk5I/AAAAAAAABPM/RHkonK77da0/s400/W.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Weekly chart ( above )had a small pullback in the medium term which may be the result of the huge spacing between the longer term charts and as facts say , the prices cannot moving up daily and weekly and must achieve a small support point in the trend for buyers to come in the to cash in on the trend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x2wiXkJryRo/S58e7XUNxjI/AAAAAAAABPE/qXwnTuYW8P4/s1600-h/D.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="196" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x2wiXkJryRo/S58e7XUNxjI/AAAAAAAABPE/qXwnTuYW8P4/s400/D.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The trendlines drawn on the daily charts ( above ) should act as good supports and resistance for the trend.The break of the line above should ensure the continuation of the trend while the lower line break can cause good price damage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/500640203437061589-5163260483430863707?l=www.investlane.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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