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Top blog posts of 2008

THANK YOU 2008



This post has been three weeks overdue now. I wanted to recap Top blog posts from 2008. Having less than 200 posts to filter through made the task easy. These posts are posts that I like and not based on number of hits.



12th Loss of Reality



Just a sad commentary on sadder events



11th Mega-structures of Finance



This came long before the crack in derivatives market appeared in newspaper headlines. It was, on other hand, nothing but stating the facts people have known for years. Though I never expected the derivative mess to unravel this badly and so soon, IMO this is just a tip of the iceberg. You ain’t seen anything yet.



10th Linkedin: Sensible and Effective use of Linkedin and Sensible way of using Linkedin



A good post when it appeared but my opinions have changed a lot since then. This post exists here for just one reason, a wisdom that it carries in the end: If you want a friend, be a friend.



9th Notes on Divination Systems



This post came out of the notes that I took when studying through few divination systems. A favorite topic which I didn’t do enough justice in version 1.0. A priority update in 2009 with more detailed analysis.



8th How I geeked my Metastock with AutoHotKey



This is something I had much fun doing. Just goes on to prove that being productive is a matter of looking for solutions out of the box.



7th Case to buy Gold - Now



This made it on the list for just one reason, this is an outlook on 2009 which has more chances of coming correct than otherwise.



6th Using Google for Equity and Market research



This is perhaps one of the most popular posts. Nothing but the distillation of what I was doing at that time. Version 2.0 is long overdue. Google may not even figure in Version 2.0.



5th Common Errors and Bad Habits of Retail Investors



This is perhaps the most hated post. The responses ranged from good to worse. It is not hard to imagine why it was hated. I just told the investors there is no easy money and you have to work for it; and like any stubborn kids they just hate the regiment. With the crash in the market, it is still a timely practice and advice.



4th Elliot Wave is futile analysis



Tip: If you want to strike a conversation with a technical analyst boyfriend/ girlfriend/ stranger; just ask their opinion on Elliot waves. Beware, you may not get a chance to speak.



This is my favorite gripe too. I could have gone on and on with more than 100 posts on this.



In all these years of market watching, I have not seen an Elliot wave artist come up with something consistent for trading. Maybe the nature of using hindsight to recount is something that baffles me. Either Elliot wave artists who try to 'predict' are living in denial next only to George Bush and Marie Antoinette. A kind of intellectual bafflery that puts them on high perch.



Elliot wave, (IMO again) works best when you use it to understand the past and the general nature of psychology of times than trying to predict and "give counts". I have yet to meet a serious trader who uses Elliot’s' to trade.



Given the touchiness of the subject, a disclaimer is must: All these opinions are just my opinions (IMHO kind and I mean it)



3rd Thoughts of future of transportation



This post too was veiled, like Grain of Sand; I tried to point out many changes that are likely to happen in future.



2nd My product is opinion



This post came out of nowhere and made lots of sense. Being a social media junkie I think this post will carry lot of weight in future. You will more posts of this sort in coming days.



1st The grain of sand



This post was written in January. Personally, I did a very good thing to take profits on most of my stocks in first week of January. Yes, first week and after that we have seen great fall in the market. The prices that we exited were seen again till date. That’s a neat success.



This post, a kind of quatrain I wanted to write (and did badly), was just a warning that: things that have happened earlier will happen again. Of course, I am not giving my 'secret ingredient' here (or whatever nonsense that is). The reason this is one of favorite post is that it was right; it was timely and if I may, had some wisdom behind it.



Ps: I posted this at a board and got one reply, totally out of context. May be others didn’t get it or my quatrain was really that bad :(



And Thanks to the Divine Muse whose invisible hand wrote these and many more blog posts. We have to do better in 2009 ;)

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