US Trading account

Yesterday marked an important chapter in my life. I opened a US trading account. If everything goes fine, this will be a remarkable start in my trading. One good instrument given is that US market allows stop limit price which most of the markets in asia does not offer.

Allow developer to create sp but not granting db_owner role (MSSQL)

How to allow a developer to create procedures without the db_owner role?

For MSSQL 2000,

GRANT CREATE PROCEDURE TO [user]

GRANT ALTER ANY SCHEMA TO [user]

CrossOver

Source:http://www.investopedia.com/university/movingaverage/movingaverages4.asp

The second type of crossover occurs when a short-term average crosses through a long-term average. This signal is used by traders to identify that momentum is shifting in one direction and that a strong move is likely approaching. A buy signal is generated when the short-term average crosses above the long-term average, while a sell signal is triggered by a short-term average crossing below a long-term average. As you can see from the chart below, this signal is very objective, which is why it's so popular.

A small steps to Technical Analysis

"A journey of thousands miles begin with a foot steps"

I always believe that. I hope that I can consistent and persistent in my voyage in learning technical analysis.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/crossover.asp
An example of a crossover would be when the security line breaks through its 25-day moving average which may be a signal to buy the stock. Some of the indicators that use crossovers are "moving average" and "Bollinger bands".

Retail stocks

Taken from "Morning Star" website.			Morningstar Stock Grades
Stock	Mkt Cap $Mil	Sales $Mil		Growth	Profit- ability	Financial Health
Chico's FAS, Inc.	1,548.0	1,755		B+	A	A+
Industry Average	1,377	1,873		B-	B+	A-
Gap, Inc.	13,957	16,027		D	A-	A+
Abercrombie & Fitch Company	6,684	3,660		B+	A+	A+
Limited Brands, Inc.	6,268	10,883		C+	A	B
American Eagle Outfitters	4,844	3,033		A-	A+	A+
Urban Outfitters Inc.	4,341	1,403		B	A	A
J. Crew Group, Inc.	2,563	1,301		A	C-	C
Hanesbrands, Inc.	2,199	4,454		D	B+	A+
Foot Locker, Inc.	1,897	5,607		D	A-	A
Aeropostale, Inc.	1,738	1,506		A-	A+	A+
Ann Taylor Stores Corporation	1,351	2,406		B	B+	A+
Buckle, Inc.	1,244	588		C	A+	A+
Men's Wearhouse	1,209	2,134		B	A	A+
Collective Brands, Inc.	1,118	2,951		C-	B-	A
Gymboree Corporation	1,026	883		A	A	A
bebe stores, inc.	968	675		B	A	A+
Pacific Sunwear	726	1,496		C-	A-	A
Tween Brands, Inc.	724	970		B+	A	A
Dress Barn, Inc.	721	1,432		B-	B+	A
Charming Shoppes, Inc.	664	3,099		C+	B-	A
Zumiez, Inc.	537	367		A+	A+	A
Children's Place Retail Stores, Inc.

Shares market crashed

Let's talk about shares. It has gone down about 20 over percents average for all global bourses from London FTSE, France to Asia Hang Seng Index, Tokyo Nikkei, Singapore STI, Shanghai, India, Australia etc...

How to pick a good stock?

I believe in fundamental. One measurement I like is BVPS.
(http://www.investopedia.com/university/ratios/bookvaluepershare.asp)

Book Value Per Share - BV

=	Stockholders Equity - Preferred Stock
	Average Outstanding Shares

It will be rare and you will be lucky to find one share that is trading below this figure.
In theory this is what is the valuation of a company but Mr Market never rate it such way and prices are usually driven by demand and supply and also emotional.

My poor little girl got stitches on forehead

My girl slipped while wearing socks and knocked against the edge of wood and got her forehead cut.

The laceration is about 3cm.

4D strike

Weekend uncle 'san su' drop by our house. He striked a 4D consolidation prize and this was the first time he striked since he visited our new house.

Wonder when is my turn?

Querying who has the sysdba privilege

select * from v$pwfile_users;

New Year Resolutions

Hope the day will come that I can earn enough to support a car.

Already past 30. Kinda of old. Wonder when will I have my own car.