17th May 2010 – Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of my favourite stocks, unfortunately I wasn’t able to catch the recent market drop and the buy back at the 200 day moving average, one would have to be really quick to do that. It would have been however a very wise stock market investing decision. Buying a 240 (or lower) Call option on that day, and holding it for at least 3 days, would have turned a $1,000 investment into anything between $3,000 and $6,000.

Markets are expected to resume their rally this week, and Apple stocks (AAPL) will certainly follow suit, the stock is trapped in a $264 – $250 narrowing trading range that will most likely breakout to the upside, if and when this expected rally happens, Nasdaq-willing:

(AAPL) is one of these stocks that have already moved higher a lot, they can be traded for both ‘buy the dips’ strategy and for longer term trading.

I wouldn’t like to speculate too much, but I would feel comfortable buying Call options on Apple stocks (AAPL) expecting a test of the $270 – $290 area, in the unlikely event that the expected rally doesn’t happen next week, then I would like to see 3 consecutive down days before I could buy more Call options, but I would still buy! You can see on the above chart that the institutional investors bought it back, and the only losers were some small private investors who sold off (AAPL) the next day just to meet their broker’s margin requirements. Hence you could safely buy (AAPL) at around $230 and still make at least $1,000 on a $1,000 Call option.

The law of gravity doesn’t apply to the stock market, just because a stock is skyrocketing it doesn’t mean it will ever trade all the way down, it may well remain in ‘orbit’ for ever. And stock options allow you to invest more wisely in these stock market up trends, in a way that, as in the case of (AAPL) here, you will be able to catch 70% to 80% of a potential rally, but only catch 40% – 50% of an equal in magnitude decline.

That is a much better risk reward ratio than buying the actual stock and holding it as a naked investment. In fact one would have to have a lot of money to afford the shares of (AAPL), being at $253 something, 1000 shares would cost $253,000! Where as 10 Call options would only cost around $10,000 to $15,000. Which does confirm that options are probably the safest way to trade these high priced stocks, other alternatives are CFDs and Futures, though in practice they are very risky. And as with the recent deep drop of Apple stocks (AAPL) these ways of dealing would have resulted in margins calls and unnecessary stop triggers.

In a few weeks, the Chinese-owned e-commerce giant Alibaba will be announcing its first ever initial public offer (IPO) in the U.S. This move has raised the anticipation of many investors. In fact, about 100 meetings will be held in different U.S. cities and a total of three continents worldwide to scout for potential shareholders. One question every potential investor is asking is whether it will be worth buying into Alibaba’s IPO.

According to online advertising statistics gathered over the years, all numbers point to the IPO being a possible lucrative venture for any investor. Since its inception, the Chinese e-commerce company has registered remarkable growth to rival that of the largest Internet marketing giants, such as eBay, Amazon and Facebook. There are a number of facts of which every potential shareholder should be aware.

Growth of Alibaba

The 2013 business calendar showed great success in growth and turnover for Alibaba. At the beginning of the year, the Chinese merchant company spent more than $3.5 billion acquiring other online marketing companies during its expansion plan. This paid off since two of its subsidiaries raked in a clean $240 billion in closing sales, which is double what Amazon or eBay has ever handled in one annual sale. Moreover, Alibaba’s popular subsidiary TaoBao is ranked in the top 20 e-commerce websites visited globally. Of all the packages sent to China, a growing economic super power, about 60 percent is handled by Alibaba itself or its subsidiary websites.

There is more to these statistics: Yahoo is one of the biggest investors of the Chinese e-commerce website. Yahoo’s stocks are currently valued at $39.5 billion and about $30 billion of this revenue is from shares held at Alibaba. And with the coming IPO, Yahoo will be required to surrender a portion of its 24 percent ownership of the e-commerce website, which is icing on the cake to investors.

By 2012, Alibaba had garnered more than 36.7 million online users registered to its website, a number that rises constantly each year. About 2.8 million online stores are signed to the website as well, and more than 6,000 products are handled in the site in divided categories. Even though most Americans are yet to hear of this giant e-commerce Chinese site, it is clear that Alibaba is growing bigger, and as a result, a financial prediction has been made that it will be handling in excess of $1 trillion a year in transactions once this IPO goes through.

What does the future look like for an investor participating in this IPO? Even with the millions of users registered to this Chinese e-commerce website, there is still a huge number of potential users from China that have yet to register. With the IPO announcement, Alibaba anticipates to increase its users through sign-ups from the U.S., Europe and targeted Asian countries.

Anticipated IPO Meeting

The anticipated IPO is set for September 3rd and will happen in three continents. Alibaba announced that its top officials would be divided into two groups to tour the three continents, as they scout for potential investors. In the U.S. alone, investors in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver and Kansas City will be invited into the IPO meeting. The IPO meetings will also be held in London, Hong Kong and Singapore, where the company’s executives will scout for potential investors. About 100 meetings will be held globally in what is going to be the largest valued IPO in years, even larger than what Facebook launched some years back; the value is estimated at $200 billion against Facebook’s IPO of $104 billion.

Humble Beginnings

Alibaba started as a small merchant website in a Chinese apartment and has grown to employ more than 24,000 workers stationed in China and other places around the world. Today, the Chinese e-commerce website provides a platform for companies to sell directly to consumers (through Tmall) and for consumers to buy and sell from each other (TaoBao).

It is evident that Alibaba’s turnover was stable even before the IPO and it is set to rise even higher after. These are the statistics as they stand and you can pretty much guess what investing in the IPO will mean to your business portfolio.

Joining TSA to protect the sky in Airport Scanner! Everyday, the airport is full of bad guys who try to transport many illegal stuffs and weapons. As the member of TSA, you have to use your sharp eyes to find these dangerous stuffs. Enjoy punishing these villians in the bonus stage then obtain extra cash to upgrade you airport scanner!

Available on the appstore

Airport Scanner by Kedlin Company illustrates the story of the crowd airport where many impatient passengers wait to scan their stuffs before broading the plane. Among of them, there are some villians with the dangerous stuffs inside their suitcase,guitar box not even inside the fish’s stomach!! What you have are two sharp eyes with the old airport scanner machine. To protect the sky from an unwelcomed event, Believe in your old scanner and find out the dangerous stuffs in these suitcases!

The Airport Scanner game play is so simple, tagging all illegal stuffs pass through the scanner. At the beginning of each stage, The impatient passengers will stand in a very long line as they wait to scan their suitcases, they will put their stuff on the scanner converyer. Once the suite case is sent to the scanner, we see all of the stuffs inside the suit case representing in a various color, you must use your sharp eyes to find the weapon-like thing in this luggage. If there are nothing dangerous , you can let it pass. But if can tag some deadly stuffs in the suit case. TSA team will do their task instantly, they will slap this villains to the punishment queue. Do not let any dangerous stuffs pass your check, since it will effect to the security trust among the people and you will be fired!

Alright now we have a group of people who broke the airport rules, it is the time to punish them off! Choose 1 from 3 level of justices for them and you will gain extrabuck after punishing them.

In Airport Scanner, once you are getting rich from the suite cases checking buisness, in order to make more bucks you, you must spend some cash to upgrade your scanner! For example, if you buy ‘turbo scanner’ the speed of the scanner conveyor will be increased so you can check more luggages over the time!

In conclusion, Airport Scanner is ‘must have’ puzzle game, it shows the funny story of the crowd airport which we can actually see in the real-world. The game play is not complex so anyone can get addict to it. This game also teaches player do not judge people from their apprearance, let’s look in their suite case! Some good looking guy should be the terrorist once you find a dynamite in his suite case. There is a log book which collects all list of illegal stuffs,non-illegal stuffs,rare treasures. You will lol once you reopen this book. This game also support the achievements system which makes challenge among players and one last thing, the graphic is represeting in a cartoon tone like the mighty diner dash, I really love it!

I would like to rate this game as 5/5 STARS!!

Spotify, the streaming music service, has now come to the the US after months of rumors that it was coming. It is hugely popular in Europe and one that until now, people could only dream about.

The new streaming music service from Spotify comes in three flavors, Free with millions of tracks that are available, but there are ads included with the music stream, Ultimate at a cost of $4.99 per month, which eliminates the advertising, and Premium, which has added features. With the Premium, there are no ads and you get millions of songs to steam. In addition to that you can use Spotify on your mobile device and the ability to have offline paylists for your use.

It has taken Spotify almost two years to bring the service to the US as they negotiated with record labels to get the deals completed. With that done, it has come to the US this week. Its integration features with Facebook and Twitter for the purposes of sharing your music should make it a very popular music service here. But there is no guarantee that it is going to be a big success. There is already competition in the US that has existed for years and will present a challenge for Spotify.

For free services, Spotify is going to be hard to beat. You get the entire song and not parts of a song which for many will make a difference, even with the advertising that is included with the free package. This is going to make things difficult for the existing streaming music providers as long as there is a free music offering from Spotify.

At the moment, the Spotify free package is only available via an invite which can come from someone who already has Spotify or by request an invite which you can get from Spotify yourself. There is a limit to the free service which is currently being reported as 6 months. After that Spotify will limit the amount of music that you can listen to at a limit of 10 – 20 hours per month though it will be interesting to see exactly how much they limit the music in the US. For Spotify to be profitable, they will need to have a large majority of people paying for the Ultimate or Premium services.

It will be interesting to see how popular Spotify is in a year and how well they are doing.

The Bank of Thailand (BOT) cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low at an emergency meeting amid worries about corona virus, it has damaged the tourism industry sector of this country and increased the risk of recession.

In the announcement on the website at the end of Friday, the Bank of Thailand said the bank’s monetary policy committee voted unanimously to cut the policy rate to 0.75%, effective March 23.

This is the second interest rate cut in many months after this bank also lowered the interest rate by 0.25% in February.

The Monetary Policy Committee viewed that the COVID-19 outbreak in the period ahead would be more severe than previously expected and the situation would take some time before returning to normal.

“This problem will seriously affect the economy of Thailand,” BOT said in the announcement. “Moreover, the epidemic has caused worries in global financial markets, affecting the liquidity and the operation of financial markets in Thailand despite the general stability of the financial system.”

According to the Monetary Policy Committee of Thailand, cutting borrowing costs will assist borrowers who affected by the disease and it eases liquidity tensions in financial markets.

BOT said it would ensure adequate liquidity as well as the normal operation and stability of financial markets.

It is expected that the Thai Monetary Policy Committee will continue to meet on March 25.

BOT said they will ensure adequate liquidity as well as the normal operation and the stability of financial markets.

It is expected that the Monetary Policy Committee of Thailand will continue to meet on March 25.

BOT is the latest central bank in Southeast Asia that loosened the policy after the central bank of the Philippines and Indonesia lowered interest rates by 0.5% and 0.25% respectively on Thursday. Meanwhile, the central bank of Malaysia loosened compulsory reserve regulations.

In other countries in Asia – Pacific, the Central Bank of Australia (RBA) also lowered the basic interest rate and has started the quantitative easing program.

This service is “more generous” than OneDrive with Google Drive when it offer up to 20GB of free storage space upon registration.

What is Cloud Storage?

If talking about cloud storage services, everyone should immediately think of 2 “giant” in this area are Google and Microsoft with Google Drive and OneDrive. However, there are still other names that are equally famous and more generous than the two names mentioned when providing users with 20GB of free storage space right after registering their account. And in this article, Icedrive will be the name we will try today, we invite readers to consult.

First of all, please visit this address (https://icedrive.net/) and click Get Started to register to use the service.

The registration process is also quite simple and non-intrusive like other providers.

After successful registration and login, the data management interface of the account on Icedrive will appear. The frame to the left of the interface will be shortcuts to data tasks and the right will be a list of the data you upload.

To get started, click Add New and click on the option you want, including creating a new folder, uploading data and uploading the entire folder.

To easily manage and organize data, first select New Folder and proceed with naming this new folder.

After creating a new folder, go to it and select Add New> Upload Files, then navigate to the data you want to upload from your computer. The download process will take place continuously and have a % display for you to follow.

When clicking on a certain file in the list, the operation menu will appear at the top for you to choose to use.

In addition, when you right-click on the file, a quick action menu also appears for you to choose to use.

The interesting point of Icedrive is its ability to allow users to create and share uploaded data directly to recipients via the link it provides. Here is the Public Link option. And from there you will be given additional features such as setting the expiration date for sharing or setting a password to protect the data.

In addition to the general data management area, Icedrive is also available for premium account users with an area for managing encrypted and multi-layered security.

When you click on the account name in the right corner of the interface, you will be provided with an extensive menu with options to navigate deep into account settings, as well as statistics on service usage information.

What Is the Best Free Cloud Storage?

Besides choosing to use icedrive web-based services, users can choose to download and install icedrive on Windows and mobile computers (Android). Overall icedrive is quite easy to use and quite fast to operate, so if you are looking for a new name in the cloud storage “village” to experience then this is a great option.

Hope the article will be useful for you.

FedEx has become a thorn in the eyes of many Chinese officials after “misplacing” Huawei’s two important parcels to the US.

South China Morning Post reported that the Chinese government is considering adding FedEx to the list of “unreliable” companies. According to SCMP, the move will increase US-China relations tensions.

The source said the Chinese authorities almost completed the necessary preparations to put FedEx on the blacklist. The final decision will be made by a senior leader.

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce made a blacklist at the end of May, targeting foreign companies that Beijing believes could harm the interests of domestic businesses.

FedEx became a thorn in the eyes of many Chinese officials after two parcels containing documents sent from Japan to Huawei in China were “mistakenly transferred” to the US without the company’s permission. FedEx confirmed that this is only a mistake in the system and absolutely no impact from outside.

“We always value customers, who have handed over more than 15 million parcels to transport every day,” FedEx posted on the Weibo account. At the same time, the company apologized for mistaking the “small amount” of Huawei goods.

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce has not yet commented on the information.

Recently, FedEx filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Commerce for asking the company to enforce the export ban, along with other surveillance moves. FedEx said this legal obligation was not fair and was an “impossible burden”. The company insists that it is only a transport service provider, not a law enforcement agency.